Bible Verses About Agricultural Activities

And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.

And the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.

And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.

He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.

He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;

But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat?

Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.

Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.

Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.

He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.

Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.

For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?

Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.

And the Lord thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the Lord will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:

And to bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, unto the house of the Lord:

And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:

And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.

Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks.

Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.

Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;

And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.

And if any part of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean.

Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.

Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?

Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.

And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.

But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.

That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.

Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.

For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:

And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.

And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord’s: it is holy unto the Lord.

And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.

Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.

The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.