²⁰ After the flood, Noah began to cultivate the ground, and he planted a vineyard.

⁷ What soldier has to pay his own expenses? What farmer plants a vineyard and doesn’t have the right to eat some of its fruit? What shepherd cares for a flock of sheep and isn’t allowed to drink some of the milk?

⁹ Even the king milks the land for his own profit!^[a]

³⁰ “You will be engaged to a woman, but another man will sleep with her. You will build a house, but someone else will live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will never enjoy its fruit.

⁶ Has anyone here just planted a vineyard but not yet eaten any of its fruit? If so, you may go home! You might die in battle, and someone else would eat the first fruit.

²⁹ Lamech named his son Noah, for he said, “May he bring us relief^[a] from our work and the painful labor of farming this ground that the Lord has cursed.”