KJV King James Version
And Noah began [to be] an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
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Genesis 9:20
And Noah began [to be] an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Now Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.
WEB World English Bible
Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.
ASV American Standard Version
And Noah began to be a husbandman, and planted a vineyard:
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And Noah remaineth a man of the ground, and planteth a vineyard,
Surrounding context — Genesis 9
17 And God said unto Noah, This [is] the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that [is] upon the earth.
18 And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham [is] the father of Canaan.
19 These [are] the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.
20 And Noah began [to be] an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid [it] upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces [were] backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.
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Genesis 3:23Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.Ecclesiastes 5:9Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king [himself] is served by the field.Genesis 5:29And he called his name Noah, saying, This [same] shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.Genesis 3:18-19Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;Proverbs 12:11He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain [persons is] void of understanding.Deuteronomy 28:30Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.Deuteronomy 20:6And what man [is he] that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not [yet] eaten of it? let him [also] go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.Isaiah 28:24-26Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?Proverbs 10:11The mouth of a righteous [man is] a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.Genesis 4:2And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.1 Corinthians 9:7Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?Song of Solomon 1:6Look not upon me, because I [am] black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother’s children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; [but] mine own vineyard have I not kept.Proverbs 24:30I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
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