Bible Verses About Vineyards

Noach, a farmer, was the first to plant a vineyard.

"If a person causes a field or vineyard to be grazed over or lets his animal loose to graze in someone else's field, he is to make restitution from the best produce of his own field and vineyard.

But the seventh year, you are to let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor among your people can eat; and what they leave, the wild animals in the countryside can eat. Do the same with your vineyard and olive grove.

Likewise, don't gather the grapes left on the vine or fallen on the ground after harvest; leave them for the poor and the foreigner; I am ADONAI your God.

"'When you enter the land and plant various kinds of fruit trees, you are to regard its fruit as forbidden - for three years it will be forbidden to you and not eaten.

In the fourth year all its fruit will be holy, for praising ADONAI.

But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit, so that it will produce even more for you; I am ADONAI your God.

But in the seventh year is to be a Shabbat of complete rest for the land, a Shabbat for ADONAI; you will neither sow your field nor prune your grapevines.

You are not to harvest what grows by itself from the seeds left by your previous harvest, and you are not to gather the grapes of your untended vine; it is to be a year of complete rest for the land.

That fiftieth year will be a yovel for you; in that year you are not to sow, harvest what grows by itself or gather the grapes of untended vines;

Your threshing time will extend until the grape harvest, and your grape harvesting will extend until the time for sowing seed. You will eat as much food as you want and live securely in your land.

Then the angel of ADONAI stood on the road where it became narrow as it passed among the vineyards and had stone walls on both sides.

"'Is there a man here who has planted a vineyard, but hasn't yet made use of its fruit? He should go back home; otherwise he may die fighting, and another man will use it.

"You are not to sow two kinds of seed between your rows of vines; if you do, both the two harvested crops and the yield from the vines must be forfeited.

"When you enter your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat enough grapes to satisfy your appetite; but you are not to put any in your basket.

When you gather the grapes from your vineyard, you are not to return and pick grapes a second time; what is left will be for the foreigner, the orphan and the widow.

You will plant vineyards and dress them but neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.

But the commander of the guard left behind some of the poor people of the land to be vineyard-workers and farmers.

In charge of the vineyards was Shim'i the Ramati, while Zavdi the Shifmi was responsible for the produce from the vineyards for the wine-cellars.

There were also some who said, "We are mortgaging our fields, vineyards and homes in order to buy grain, because of the famine."

Yet others said, "We have borrowed money for the king's taxes against our fields and vineyards.

there they sow fields and plant vineyards, which yield an abundant harvest.

I passed by the field of the lazy man and the vineyard of the man lacking sense.

There it was, overgrown with thistles; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.

Don't stare at me because I'm dark; it's the sun that tanned me. My mother's sons were angry with me and made me look after the vineyards. But I haven't cared for my own vineyard.