Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard.
Does he who plows for sowing plow continually? Does he continually open and harrow his ground? When he has leveled its surface, does he not scatter dill, sow cumin, and put in wheat in rows and barley in its proper place, and emmer as the border? For he is rightly instructed; his God teaches him.
But this is gain for a land in every way: a king committed to cultivated fields.
I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of a man lacking sense,
Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.
The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall ravish her. You shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it. You shall plant a vineyard, but you shall not enjoy its fruit.
And is there any man who has planted a vineyard and has not enjoyed its fruit? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man enjoy its fruit.
and called his name Noah, saying, “Out of the ground that the Lord has cursed, this one shall bring us relief from our work and from the painful toil of our hands.”
And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground.
therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.
thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock without getting some of the milk?
Do not gaze at me because I am dark, because the sun has looked upon me. My mother's sons were angry with me; they made me keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have not kept!
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