Then God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit according to their kind with seed in them”; and it was so.

The earth produced vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, according to their kind; and God saw that it was good.

Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; Yet you shall eat the plants of the field;

He lies down under the lotus plants, In the hiding place of the reeds and the marsh.

The lotus plants cover him with shade; The willows of the brook surround him.

For they will wither quickly like the grass, And decay like the green plants.

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine Within your house, Your children like olive plants Around your table.

When our sons in their youth are like growing plants, And our daughters like corner pillars fashioned for a palace,

She considers a field and buys it; From her earnings she plants a vineyard.

Your branches are an orchard of pomegranates With delicious fruits, henna with nard plants,

I went down to the orchard of nut trees To see the plants of the valley, To see whether the vine had grown Or the pomegranates had bloomed.

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation And have not remembered the rock of your refuge. Therefore you plant delightful plants And set them with vine shoots of a strange god.

He will cut cedars for himself, and he takes a holm-oak or another oak and lets it grow strong for himself among the trees of the forest. He plants a laurel tree, and the rain makes it grow.

I made you very numerous, like plants of the field. Then you grew up, became tall and reached the age for fine jewelry; your breasts were formed and your hair had grown. Yet you were naked and bare.

and this is smaller than all the other seeds, but when it is fully grown, it is larger than the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the sky come and nest in its branches.”

yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants, and forms large branches, with the result that the birds of the sky can nest under its shade.”

So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth.

Now the one who plants and the one who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

Who at any time serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not consume some of the milk of the flock?