“For in this the word is true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’
let me sow, and another eat; and let my harvest be rooted out.
“You shall sow but not reap, you shall tread the olives but not anoint yourselves with oil, and make sweet wine but not drink wine.
For I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man. You take up what you did not lay down, and reap what you did not sow.’
Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he shall do also. And greater works than these he shall do, because I go to My Father.
“He who is reaping receives a reward, and gathers fruit for everlasting life, so that both he who is sowing and he who is reaping rejoice together.
“I sent you to reap that for which you have not laboured. Others have laboured, and you have entered into their labours.”
And it came to be, whenever Yisra’ĕl had sown, that Miḏyan would come up, and Amalĕq and the people of the East would come up against them,