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Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so.
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The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
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Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.
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And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.
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Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground,
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Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.
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It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
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Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
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Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.
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The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
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Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the Lord, the Eternal God.
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Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold, because the Lord blessed him.
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When Rebekah was told what her older son Esau had said, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, “Your brother Esau is planning to avenge himself by killing you.
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During wheat harvest, Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrake plants, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”
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Jacob, however, took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond and plane trees and made white stripes on them by peeling the bark and exposing the white inner wood of the branches.
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The plan seemed good to Pharaoh and to all his officials.
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Joseph said to the people, “Now that I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh, here is seed for you so you can plant the ground.
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They covered all the ground until it was black. They devoured all that was left after the hail—everything growing in the fields and the fruit on the trees. Nothing green remained on tree or plant in all the land of Egypt.
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You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of your inheritance— the place, Lord, you made for your dwelling, the sanctuary, Lord, your hands established.
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“Set up the tabernacle according to the plan shown you on the mountain.
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If a carcass falls on any seeds that are to be planted, they remain clean.
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“‘Keep my decrees. “‘Do not mate different kinds of animals. “‘Do not plant your field with two kinds of seed. “‘Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material.
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“‘When you enter the land and plant any kind of fruit tree, regard its fruit as forbidden. For three years you are to consider it forbidden; it must not be eaten.
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You may ask, “What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or harvest our crops?”
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While you plant during the eighth year, you will eat from the old crop and will continue to eat from it until the harvest of the ninth year comes in.
