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Genesis 9:20
Genesis 9:20 is verse 20 of Genesis chapter 9, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Now Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.
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King James Version
And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
World English Bible
Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.
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Genesis 9:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible
18 The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.
19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.
20 Now Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.
21 But when he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.
22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Genesis 3:18Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
Genesis 3:23Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
Genesis 4:2Later she gave birth to Cain’s brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, while Cain was a tiller of the soil.
Genesis 5:29And he named him Noah, saying, “May this one comfort us in the labor and toil of our hands caused by the ground that the LORD has cursed.”
Proverbs 10:11The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
Proverbs 12:11The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies lacks judgment.
Ecclesiastes 5:9The produce of the earth is taken by all; the king himself profits from the fields.
Isaiah 28:24Does the plowman plow for planting every day? Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil?
Isaiah 28:25When he has leveled its surface, does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin? He plants wheat in rows and barley in plots, and rye within its border.
Isaiah 28:26For his God instructs and teaches him properly.
Deuteronomy 20:6Has any man planted a vineyard and not begun to enjoy its fruit? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man enjoy its fruit.
Deuteronomy 28:30You will be pledged in marriage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but will not enjoy its fruit.
Proverbs 24:30I went past the field of a slacker and by the vineyard of a man lacking judgment.
Song of Solomon 1:6Do not stare because I am dark, for the sun has gazed upon me. My mother’s sons were angry with me; they made me a keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have neglected.
1 Corinthians 9:7Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not drink of its milk?