Genesis 2:5

5When no abush of the field
Or open country
was yet in the land
Or earth; also verse 6
and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man dto work the ground,

Genesis 3:19

19By the sweat of your face
you shall eat bread,
till you return to the ground,
for out of it you were taken;
efor you are dust,
and fto dust you shall return.”

Genesis 4:2

2And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground.

Genesis 4:12

12When you work the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”

Genesis 9:20

20Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard.
Or Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard

Ecclesiastes 5:9

9But this is gain for a land in every way: a king committed to cultivated fields.
The meaning of the Hebrew verse is uncertain


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