So the earth produced all kinds of plants, and God was pleased with what he saw.

You make grass grow for the cattle and plants for us to use, so that we can grow our crops

He sends rain on the land and he waters the fields.

Who makes rain fall where no one lives?

Does either the rain or the dew have a father?

You show your care for the land by sending rain; you make it rich and fertile. You fill the streams with water; you provide the earth with crops. This is how you do it:

What a rich harvest your goodness provides! Wherever you go there is plenty.

He brings storm clouds from the ends of the earth; he makes lightning for the storms, and he brings out the wind from his storeroom.

None of the idols of the nations can send rain; the sky by itself cannot make showers fall. We have put our hope in you, O LORD our God, because you are the one who does these things.

so that you may become the children of your Father in heaven. For he makes his sun to shine on bad and good people alike, and gives rain to those who do good and to those who do evil.

God blesses the soil which drinks in the rain that often falls on it and which grows plants that are useful to those for whom it is cultivated.

So the LORD God sent them out of the Garden of Eden and made them cultivate the soil from which they had been formed.

Later she gave birth to another son, Abel. Abel became a shepherd, but Cain was a farmer.

If you try to grow crops, the soil will not produce anything; you will be a homeless wanderer on the earth."