Noah, a man of the soil, began to plant a vineyard.

Why should we die before your very eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we, with our land, will become Pharaoh’s slaves. Give us seed that we may live and not die. Then the land will not become desolate.”

Joseph said to the people, “Since I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh, here is seed for you. Cultivate the land.

Springs would well up from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.

So the Lord God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.

At the designated time Cain brought some of the fruit of the ground for an offering to the Lord.

But the Lord said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground!

When humankind began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,

Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.

I will bless those who bless you, but the one who treats you lightly I must curse, and all the families of the earth will bless one another by your name.”

But he did not purchase the land of the priests because the priests had an allotment from Pharaoh and they ate from their allotment that Pharaoh gave them. That is why they did not sell their land.

So Joseph made it a statute, which is in effect to this day throughout the land of Egypt: One-fifth belongs to Pharaoh. Only the land of the priests did not become Pharaoh’s.

God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the cattle according to their kinds, and all the creatures that creep along the ground according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.

The Lord God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”

Then she gave birth to his brother Abel. Abel took care of the flocks, while Cain cultivated the ground.

So now, you are banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

When you try to cultivate the ground it will no longer yield its best for you. You will be a homeless wanderer on the earth.”

Look! You are driving me off the land today, and I must hide from your presence. I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth; whoever finds me will kill me.”

He named him Noah, saying, “This one will bring us comfort from our labor and from the painful toil of our hands because of the ground that the Lord has cursed.”