48 Bible Verses About Farming

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.

And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;

And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.

Every raven after his kind;

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

The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.

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.

Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.

Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.

And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.

These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.

Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.

And his brethren went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.

And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the Lord be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath,

When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour’s standing corn.

Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.

Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?

And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon,

And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the Lord hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.

Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.

Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.

And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.

He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.

This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth:

And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:

I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:

Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:

And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him: behold, here be oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other instruments of the oxen for wood.

And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.

Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?

Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.

There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.

Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies’ land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.

But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up.

And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.

For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:

And Ashan with her suburbs, and Beth–shemesh with her suburbs:

Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.

And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.

Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:

Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.

And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.

Thou therefore, and thy sons, and thy servants, shall till the land for him, and thou shalt bring in the fruits, that thy master’s son may have food to eat: but Mephibosheth thy master’s son shall eat bread alway at my table. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.