Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, and you shall eat the plants of the field.

In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you have been taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.

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.

And he called his name Noah, saying, This one will comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Jehovah has cursed.

The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

He who tills his land shall be satisfied with bread, but he who follows vanities lacks heart.

And the advantage of the land is for all; even a king has fields being tilled.

Does the plowman plow all day to sow? Does he loosen and harrow his ground?

For God instructs him to do right; and teaches him.

And what man is there who has planted a vineyard and has not eaten of it? Let him go and return to his house, that he not die in battle and another man violate it.

You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall lie with her; you shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it; you shall plant a vineyard, but shall not begin to eat.

I went by the field of the lazy man, and by the vineyard of the man lacking heart;

Do not look upon me, because I am black, because the sun has looked upon me. My mother's sons were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have not kept.

Who ever serves military duty at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink of the milk of the flock?