And the earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to its kind, and the tree producing fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and vegetation for the service of man, that he may bring forth food out of the earth,

He gives rain upon the face of the earth, and sends waters abroad;

to cause it to rain on a land where there is no man, a wilderness devoid of mankind;

Has the rain a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew?

You visit the earth and water it; You greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; You provide their grain, for in this way You have prepared it.

You crown the year with Your goodness, and Your trenches drip with fertility.

He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; He makes lightning for the rain; He brings the wind out of His storehouses.

Are there any among the vain idols of the nations who can make it rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Is it not You, O Jehovah our God. Therefore we will wait upon You; for You have made all these things.

that you may become sons of your Father in Heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

For the earth which drinks in the rain that often comes upon it, and bears herbs useful for those by whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God;

therefore Jehovah God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.

And she bore again, his brother Abel. And Abel tended flocks, but Cain worked the ground.

When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength to you. A fugitive and a vagabond you shall be on the earth.