Agriculture

How Nave’s arranged it

• Divine institution ofGenesis 2:15Genesis 3:19Genesis 3:23
• Practiced by CainGenesis 4:2
• Practiced by NoahGenesis 9:20
• Practiced by Elisha1 Kings 19:19
• Practiced by David1 Chronicles 27:26–31
• Practiced by Uzziah2 Chronicles 26:10
• Practiced by SolomonEcclesiastes 2:4–6
• God to be acknowledged inJeremiah 5:24Hosea 2:8
• Requires wisdomIsaiah 28:26
• Requires diligenceProverbs 27:23Proverbs 27:27Ecclesiastes 11:6
• Requires patienceJames 5:7
• Requires toil2 Timothy 2:6

The passages, in Bible order (60)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 2:15

   Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

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   “Note, now, the person who was taken and the land where he was formed. The virtue of God, therefore, took man and breathed into him, so that man's virtue will advance and increase. God set him apart in Paradise that you may know that man was taken up, that is to say, was breathed upon by the power of God. Note the fact that man was created outside Paradise, whereas woman was made within it. This teaches us that each person acquires grace by reason of virtue, not because of locality or of race.

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2. Genesis 3:19

   By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

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   “Now, certainly nothing else is raised than that which is sown; and nothing else is sown than that which decays in the ground; and it is nothing else than the flesh which is decayed in the ground. For this was the substance which God's decree demolished, "Earth you are, and to earth shall you return;" Genesis 3:19 because it was taken out of the earth.

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3. Genesis 3:23

   Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

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4. Genesis 4:2

   Later she gave birth to Cain’s brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, while Cain was a tiller of the soil.

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   “Abel was a keeper of sheep--literally, "a feeder of a flock," which, in Oriental countries, always includes goats as well as sheep. Abel, though the younger, is mentioned first, probably on account of the pre-eminence of his religious character.

   “Again, she bore his brother Abel. Abel is interpreted as grief or miserable, by which name from the earliest age was foreshadowed the condition of his lamentable untimely death.

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5. Genesis 8:22

   As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”

   ›Commentary on Genesis 8:222 voices

   “While the earth remaineth--The consummation, as intimated in 2Pe 3:7, does not frustrate a promise which held good only during the continuance of that system.

   “And because there was neither planting nor harvest during that year and the seasonal cycles had been disturbed, God restored to the earth that which had been taken away in his anger.

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6. Genesis 9:20

   Now Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 9:202 voices

   “When Christ says, "I am the true vine," the blood of Christ is assuredly not water but wine. We are redeemed and made alive by his blood. But in the cup it is not wine as such that redeems but his blood. This is declared by the sacrament and testimony of all the Scriptures. For we find this even in Genesis also, in respect of the sacrament prefigured in Noah. That he drank wine was to them a precursor and figure of the Lord's passion.

   “Noah began to be a husbandman - איש האדמה ish haadamah, A man of the ground, a farmer; by his beginning to be a husbandman we are to understand his recommencing his agricultural operations, which undoubtedly he had carried on for six hundred years before, but this had been interrupted by the flood. And the transaction here mentioned might have occurred many years posterior to the deluge, even after Canaan was born and grown up, for the date of it is not fixed in the text.

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7. Exodus 20:9

   Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

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   “Six days shalt thou labor - Therefore he who idles away time on any of the six days, is as guilty before God as he who works on the Sabbath. No work should be done on the Sabbath that can be done on the preceding days, or can be deferred to the succeeding ones. Works of absolute necessity and mercy are alone excepted. He who works by his servants or cattle is equally guilty as if he worked himself.

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8. Exodus 22:5

   If a man grazes his livestock in a field or vineyard and allows them to stray so that they graze in someone else’s field, he must make restitution from the best of his own field or vineyard.

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9. Exodus 22:6

   If a fire breaks out and spreads to thornbushes so that it consumes stacked or standing grain, or the whole field, the one who started the fire must make full restitution.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 22:62 voices

   “The very parched state of the herbage and the long droughts of summer, make the kindling of a fire an operation often dangerous, and always requiring caution from its liability to spread rapidly. stacks--or as it is rendered "shocks" (Jud 15:5; Job 5:26), means simply a bundle of loose sheaves.

   “If fire break out - Mr. Harmer observes that it is a common custom in the east to set the dry herbage on fire before the autumnal rains, which fires, for want of care, often do great damage: and in countries where great drought prevails, and the herbage is generally parched, great caution was peculiarly necessary; and a law to guard against such evils, and to punish inattention and neglect, was highly expedient. See Harmer’s Observat., vol. iii., p. 310, etc.

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10. Exodus 23:10–12

    For six years you are to sow your land and gather its produce,

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    “This is the first mention of the Sabbatical year; the law for it is given at length in Lev 25:2. Both the Sabbatical year and the weekly Sabbath are here spoken of exclusively in their relation to the poor, as bearing testimony to the equality of the people in their covenant with Yahweh.

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11. Exodus 34:21

    Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.

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    “Here is a repetition of several appointments made before, especially relating to their solemn feasts: when they had made the calf they proclaimed a feast in honour of it; now, that they might never do so again, they are here charged with the observance of the feasts which God had instituted.

    “Moses bowed . . . and worshipped--In the East, people bow the head to royalty, and are silent when it passes by, while in the West, they take off their hats and shout.

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12. Exodus 34:22

    And you are to celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.

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    “Moses bowed . . . and worshipped--In the East, people bow the head to royalty, and are silent when it passes by, while in the West, they take off their hats and shout.

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13. Leviticus 19:9

    When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.

    ›Commentary on Leviticus 19:91 voice

    “During the harvest, [the law] forbids owners to gather up the bits which fall from the sheaves and similarly advises that in harvesting something should be left behind unreaped. By this it gives excellent teaching to owners in the practice of generous sharing by leaving some of their property for those in need and providing the poor with a chance for food.

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14. Leviticus 19:10

    You must not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.

    ›Commentary on Leviticus 19:102 voices

    “During the harvest, [the law] forbids owners to gather up the bits which fall from the sheaves and similarly advises that in harvesting something should be left behind unreaped. By this it gives excellent teaching to owners in the practice of generous sharing by leaving some of their property for those in need and providing the poor with a chance for food.

    “See Deu 24:19-21. “Grape” signifies fallen fruit of any kind; and “vineyard” a fruit garden of any kind. Compare Deu 23:24. The poor - is the poor Israelite - “the stranger” is properly the foreigner, who could possess no land of his own in the land of Israel.

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15. Leviticus 19:19

    You are to keep My statutes. You shall not crossbreed two different kinds of livestock; you shall not sow your fields with two kinds of seed; and you shall not wear clothing made of two kinds of material.

    ›Commentary on Leviticus 19:191 voice

    “Linen and woolen - The original word is found only here and in Deu 22:11, where it is rendered “of divers sorts.” It may denote such tissues as linsey woolsey.

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16. Leviticus 19:23–25

    When you enter the land and plant any kind of tree for food, you shall regard the fruit as forbidden. For three years it will be forbidden to you and must not be eaten.

    ›Commentary on Leviticus 19:23–251 voice

    “Fruit ... uncircumcised - i. e. unfit for presentation to Yahweh. In regard to its spiritual lesson, this law may be compared with the dedication of the first-born of beasts to Yahweh Exo 13:12; Exo 34:19. Its meaning in a moral point of view was plain, and tended to illustrate the spirit of the whole Law.

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