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.

   “And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden,....

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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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   “Still another problem arises. "From what source did death come to Adam? Was it from the nature of a tree of this sort or actually from God?" If we ascribe this to the nature of the tree, then the fruit of this tree seems to be superior to the vivifying power of the breath of God, since its fruit would have drawn into death's toils him on whom the divine breath had bestowed life. If we maintain that God is the responsible cause of death, then we can be held to accuse him of inconsistency.

   “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread,....

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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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   “Now, although Adam was by reason of his condition under law subject to death, yet was hope preserved to him by the Lord's saying, "Behold, Adam is become as one of us;" that is, in consequence of the future taking of the man into the divine nature. Then what follows? "And now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, (and eat), and live for ever." Inserting thus the particle of present time, "And now," He shows that He had made for a time, and at present, a prolongation of man's life.

   “Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden,....

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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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   “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. For, although precious is the death of his saints in the sight of the Lord, having …

   “And she again bare his brother Abel,....

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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.”

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   “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. God then said, "All the days of the earth, planting and harvest, cold …

   “While the earth remaineth,....

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6. Genesis 9:20

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

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   “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.

   “Now the three sons of Noah were Shem, Ham and Japheth, from whom again the race was multiplied: for these were the beginning of mankind after the flood. Now of these one fell under a curse, and the two (others) inherited a blessing by reason of their works.

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7. Exodus 20:9

   Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

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   “He commands imitation of himself, when he says: Six days you shall labor. Concerning this imitation the Apostle says: Be imitators of God, as most beloved children: and in Luke it is said: Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful. Now there are six …

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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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   “If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten,....

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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.

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   “If fire break out,....

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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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    “And six years thou shall sow thy land, The land of Canaan, given to their ancestors and to them, and which they were now going to inherit; and when they came into it they were to plant it with vines and olives; or rather, these being ready planted, they were to prune and dress them; and they were to till their land, and plough it, and sow it with various sorts of grain, for six years running, from the time of their possession of it: and shall gather in the fruits thereof; corn and wine, and oil, into their own garners, treasuries, and cellars, as their own property, to dispose of as they pleased for their own use and profit.

    “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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    “Six days shalt thou work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest,....

    “In earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest - This commandment is worthy of especial note; many break the Sabbath on the pretense of absolute necessity, because, if in harvest time the weather happens to be what is called bad, and the Sabbath day be fair and fine, they judge it perfectly lawful to employ that day in endeavoring to save the fruits of the field, and think that the goodness of the day beyond the preceding, is an indication from Providence that it should be thus employed. But is not the above command pointed directly against this?

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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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    “And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks,....

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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.

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    “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.

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    “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.

    “And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard,....

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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 19:192 voices

    “Ye shall keep my statutes,....

    “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.

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    “Fruitbearing trees are works that bring forth virtues. We circumcise trees when we are suspicious of how weak our first efforts are and do not approve of the first fruits of our work. We call the fruit that grows unclean and do not take it …

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