What does the Bible say about agriculture?

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• Genesis 1:12

  The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind: and God saw that it was good.

• 1 Corinthians 3:6-9

  [6] I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase. [7] So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. [8] Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. [9] For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.

• Hosea 10:12

  Sow to yourselves in righteousness, Reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; For it is time to seek Yahweh, Until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

• Matthew 13:1-10

  [1] On that day Jesus went out of the house, and sat by the seaside. [2] Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat, and sat, and all the multitude stood on the beach. [3] He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, "Behold, a farmer went out to sow. [4] As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them. [5] Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn't have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth. [6] When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away. [7] Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them: [8] and others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty. [9] He who has ears to hear, let him hear." [10] The disciples came, and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?"

• John 15:1

  "I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.

• Leviticus 19:19

  "'You shall keep my statutes. "'You shall not crossbreed different kinds of animals. "'you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; "'neither shall there come upon on you a garment made of two kinds of material.

• Mark 4:26

  He said, "The Kingdom of God is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,

• Mark 4:31

  It's like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth,

• Jeremiah 29:5

  Build you houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

• Leviticus 19:23-25

  [23] "'When you come into the land, and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden. Three years shall they be forbidden to you. It shall not be eaten. [24] But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, for giving praise to Yahweh. [25] In the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, that it may yield its increase to you. I am Yahweh your God.

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