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23 Bible Verses About Farming

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  • Genesis 2:15 gives the man the work of tending the garden a chapter before the ground is cursed in Genesis 3:17-19.
  • Leviticus 25:4 gives the land a sabbath rest every seventh year, and Leviticus 25:20-22 promises a sixth-year crop large enough for three years.
  • Deuteronomy 24:19-22 leaves forgotten sheaves, olives and grapes for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, and Ruth 2 shows Ruth gleaning behind the harvesters in Boaz’s field.
  • Isaiah 28:26 says God instructs the farmer and teaches him the right way to plow and sow.
  • The Greek word for farmer, geōrgos, is used in James 5:7 and 2 Timothy 2:6, and in John 15:1 for the Father as the gardener of the vine.

The Bible treats farming as work God gave people from the beginning, and as work that depends on God for its rain and growth. The first man is placed in a garden “to work it and take care of it” (Genesis 2:15), and Isaiah says God teaches the farmer how to plow and sow (Isaiah 28:24-26). The law gives the land a rest every seventh year (Leviticus 25:4) and leaves the forgotten sheaf for the poor (Deuteronomy 24:19). Prophets, Jesus…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

Strong’s Greek 1092, γεωργός (geōrgos): farmer, husbandman, vinedresser; a tiller of the soil in 2 Timothy 2:6 and James 5:7, and used in John 15:1. biblehub.com/greek/1092

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