It is right for the worker in the fields to be the first to take of the fruit.

Go on waiting calmly, my brothers, till the coming of the Lord, like the farmer waiting for the good fruit of the earth till the early and late rains have come.

But when the grain is ready, he quickly sends men to get it cut, because the time for cutting has come.

And he said to them, in a story, The land of a certain man of great wealth was very fertile:

And when you get in the grain from your land, do not let all the grain at the edges of the field be cut, and do not take up the grain which has been dropped in the field; let that be for the poor, and for the man from another country: I am the Lord your God.

And I saw that the Levites had not been given what was needed for their support; so that the Levites and the music-makers, who did the work, had gone away, everyone to his field.

A blessing will be on you in the town, and a blessing in the field.

And when the time came, he sent a servant to get from the workmen some of the fruit of the garden.

And they will be building houses and living in them; planting vine-gardens and getting the fruit of them.

And he said, Such is the kingdom of God, as if a man put seed in the earth,

But let the seventh year be a Sabbath of rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord; do not put seed into your land or have your vines cut.

I went by the field of the hater of work, and by the vine-garden of the man without sense;

I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener.

When, then, the lord of the vine-garden comes, what will he do to those workmen?

And he who gives seed for putting into the field and bread for food, will take care of the growth of your seed, at the same time increasing the fruits of your righteousness;

For we are workers with God: you are God's planting, God's building.

In those days Noah became a farmer, and he made a vine-garden.

The seed is the word.

But he will say, I am no prophet, but a worker on the land; for I have been an owner of land from the time when I was young.

For six years put seed into your fields and get in the increase;

Again will your vine-gardens be planted on the hill of Samaria: the planters will be planting and using the fruit.

And he gave the people this story: A man made a vine-garden and gave the use of it to some field-workers and went into another country for a long time.

Do not have your vine-garden planted with two sorts of seed: or all of it may become a loss, the seed you have put in as well as the increase.

But if it sends up thorns and evil plants, it is of no use and is ready to be cursed; its only end is to be burned.

And went to sleep and got up, night and day, and the seed came to growth, though he had no idea how.

Is the ploughman for ever ploughing? does he not get the earth ready and broken up for the seed?

But in the seventh year let the land have a rest and be unplanted; so that the poor may have food from it: and let the beasts of the field take the rest. Do the same with your vine-gardens and your olive-trees.

For his God is his teacher, giving him the knowledge of these things.

And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them;

For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: Get your unworked land ploughed up, do not put in your seeds among thorns.

And when those men came who had gone to work at the eleventh hour, they were given every man a penny.

He who is watching the wind will not get the seed planted, and he who is looking at the clouds will not get in the grain.

Then again she became with child and gave birth to Abel, his brother. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a farmer.

Then Amos in answer said to Amaziah, I am no prophet, or one of the sons of the prophets; I am a herdman and one who takes care of sycamore-trees:

Is the grain for bread crushed? He does not go on crushing it for ever, but he lets his cart-wheels and his horses go over it without crushing it.

No exchange of land may be for ever, for the land is mine, and you are as my guests, living with me for a time.

And some went on the rock, and when it came up it became dry and dead because it had no water.

Now Abram had great wealth of cattle and silver and gold.

And he gave them teaching in the form of a story, saying, A man went out to put seed in the earth;

It will be farmed by workers of the town from all the tribes of Israel.

And the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to do work in it and take care of it.

Then two men will be in the field; one is taken, and one let go;

And he put up towers in the waste land and made places for storing water, for he had much cattle, in the low hills and in the table land; and he had farmers and vine-keepers in the mountains and in the fertile land, for he was a lover of farming.

Now Isaac, planting seed in that land, got in the same year fruit a hundred times as much, for the blessing of the Lord was on him.

The hater of work will not do his ploughing because of the winter; so at the time of grain-cutting he will be requesting food and will get nothing.

And he went back, and took the oxen and put them to death, and cooking their flesh with the yokes of the oxen, he gave the people a feast. Then he got up and went after Elijah and became his servant.

No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth.

So the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to be a worker on the earth from which he was taken.