And God said, Behold, I have given you every plant bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, which has seed in its fruit; to you it shall be for food.

And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that creeps upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green plant for food: and it was so.

And unto Adam he said, Because you have listened unto the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it: cursed is the ground for your sake; in sorrow shall you eat of it all the days of your life;

In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, till you return unto the ground; for out of it were you taken: for dust you are, and unto dust shall you return.

He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;

And wine that makes glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengthens man's heart.

The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD's: but the earth has he given to the children of men.

Much food is in the fallow ground of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for lack of justice.

Be diligent to know the state of your flocks, and look well to your herds.

The hay appears, and the tender grass shows itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.

And you shall have goats' milk enough for your food, for the food of your household, and for the maintenance for your maidservants.

He that tills his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that follows after worthless pursuits shall have poverty enough.

As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah to serve the Chaldeans, who will come unto us: but you, gather you wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that you have taken.

Even all the Jews returned out of all places where they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much.

And he will appoint himself captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his weapons of war, and equipment for his chariots.

And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.

And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your finest young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.

And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision.

The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan:

The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; who had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as his wife:

The son of Geber, in Ramoth-gilead; to him belonged the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also belonged the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and bronze bars:

Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as his wife:

Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:

Geber the son of Uri was in the country of Gilead, in the country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer who was in the land.

And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought tribute, and served Solomon all the days of his life.

Ten fatted oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, beside harts, gazelles, roebucks, and fatted fowl.

And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:

And over the olive trees and the sycamore trees that were in the lowlands was Baal-hanan the Gederite: and over the stores of oil was Joash:

Over the camels also was Obil the Ishmaelite: and over the donkeys was Jehdeiah the Meronothite: