But they were indifferent and went away, one to his farm, another to his business.

Ezri son of Kelub was in charge of the field workers who farmed the land. ¹ 

The workers of the city from all the tribes of Israel will cultivate it.

At the designated time ¹  Cain brought some of the fruit of the ground for an offering ²  to the Lord.

There is abundant food in the field ¹  of the poor, but it is swept away by injustice. ² 

The desolate land will be plowed, instead of being desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.

He then ¹  told them a parable: ²  “The land of a certain rich man produced ³  an abundant crop,

Things will go better for the nation that submits to the yoke of servitude to ¹  the king of Babylon and is subject to him. I will leave that nation ²  in its native land. Its people can continue to farm it and live in it. I, the Lord, affirm it!”’” ³ 

Noah, a man of the soil, ¹  began to plant a vineyard. ² 

They experience his favor; ¹  their descendants ²  inherit the land. ³ 

Mourn over the field, ¹  over the delightful fields and the fruitful vine!

He built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns, for he owned many herds in the lowlands ¹  and on the plain. He had workers in the fields and vineyards in the hills and in Carmel, ²  for he loved agriculture. ³ 

Boaz asked ¹  his servant ²  in charge of the harvesters, “To whom does this young woman belong?” ³ 

But Naboth replied to Ahab, “The Lord forbid that I should sell you my ancestral inheritance.” ¹ 

“If my land cried out against me ²  and all its furrows wept together,

They are dismayed because the ground is cracked ¹  because there has been no rain in the land. The farmers, too, are dismayed and bury their faces in their hands.

We have not built any houses to live in. We do not own any vineyards, fields, or crops.

Then the Lord took me from tending ¹  flocks and gave me this commission, ²  ‘Go! Prophesy to my people Israel!’

Likewise, just as it was ¹  in the days of Lot, people ²  were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;

He named him Noah, ¹  saying, “This one will bring us comfort ²  from our labor and from the painful toil of our hands because of the ground that the Lord has cursed.”