agriculture

¹²And the land brought forth green plants, both those producing seed, according to their kind, and trees producing fruit, with each having its own way of sowing, according to its species. And God saw that it was good.

⁶I planted, Apollo watered, but God provided the growth. ⁷And so, neither he who plants, nor he who waters, is anything, but only God, who provides the growth. ⁸Now he who plants, and he who waters, are one. But each shall receive his proper reward, according to his labors. ⁹For we are God’s assistants. You are God’s cultivation; you are God’s construction.

¹In that day, Jesus, departing from the house, sat down beside the sea. ²And such great crowds were gathered to him that he climbed into a boat and he sat down. And the entire multitude stood on the shore. ³And he spoke many things to them in parables, saying: “Behold, a sower went out to sow seed. ⁴And while he was sowing, some fell beside the road, and the birds of the air came and ate it. ⁵Then others fell in a rocky place, where they did not have much soil. And they sprung up promptly, because they had no depth of soil. ⁶But when the sun rose up, they were scorched, and because they had no roots, they withered.

¹²Sow for yourselves in justice, and harvest in the mouth of mercy; renew your fallow land. But the time when you will seek the Lord is the time when he will arrive who will teach you justice.

¹“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.

²⁶And he said: “The kingdom of God is like this: it is as if a man were to cast seed on the land.

¹⁹Observe my laws. You shall not cause your cattle to breed with other kinds of animals. You shall not sow your field with diverse seeds. You shall not be clothed with a garment which has been woven from two things.

³¹It is like a grain of mustard seed which, when it has been sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds which are in the earth.

⁵Build houses and live in them. And plant gardens, and eat from their fruit.

²³When you will have entered into the land, and will have planted in it fruit trees, you shall take away their first-fruits; the fruit that germinates shall be unclean to you, neither shall you eat from these. ²⁴But in the fourth year, all their fruit shall be sanctified for the praise of the Lord. ²⁵And in the fifth year you shall eat the produce, gathering the fruits which are brought forth. I am the Lord your God.

⁶I planted, Apollo watered, but God provided the growth.

⁹You shall not sow your vineyard with another seed, lest both the seed that you have sown and what springs forth from the vineyard be sanctified together. ¹⁰You shall not till with an ox and a donkey at the same time.