Genesis 9:20

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Noah farmed the land and was the first to plant a vineyard.

Cross References

Genesis 3:23

So the LORD God sent them out of the Garden of Eden, where they would have to work the ground from which the man had been made.

Genesis 4:2

Later she had another son and named him Abel. Abel became a sheep farmer, but Cain farmed the land.

Genesis 5:29

Lamech said, “I'll name him Noah because he will give us comfort, as we struggle hard to make a living on this land that the LORD has put under a curse.”

Genesis 9:19

All people on earth are descendants of Noah's three sons.

Genesis 9:21

One day he got drunk and was lying naked in his tent.

Proverbs 10:11

The words of good people are a source of life, but evil hides behind the words of the wicked.

Proverbs 12:11

Hard working farmers have more than enough food; daydreamers are nothing more than stupid fools.

Proverbs 24:30

I once walked by the field and the vineyard of a lazy fool.

Ecclesiastes 5:9

And since the king is the highest official, he benefits most from the taxes paid on the land.

Song of Solomon 1:6

Don't stare at me just because the sun has darkened my skin. My brothers were angry with me; they made me work in the vineyard, and so I neglected my complexion. Don't let the other shepherds think badly of me.

1 Corinthians 9:7

Do soldiers pay their own salaries? Don't people who raise grapes eat some of what they grow? Don't shepherds get milk from their own goats?

Deuteronomy 20:6

If any of you have planted a vineyard but haven't had your first grape harvest, you may go home. It isn't right for you to die in battle and for somebody else to enjoy your grapes.

Deuteronomy 28:30

A man will be engaged to a woman, but before they can get married, she will be raped by enemy soldiers. Some of you will build houses, but never get to live in them. If you plant a vineyard, you won't be around long enough to enjoy the first harvest.