Grape: Cultivation of

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  1. For six years you may sow your field and prune your vineyard and gather its crops.
  2. The fiftieth year will be a Jubilee for you; you are not to sow the land or reap its aftergrowth or harvest the untended vines.
  3. You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.
  4. Since he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hill country and in the fertile fields.
  5. I went down to the walnut grove to see the blossoms of the valley, to see if the vines were budding or the pomegranates were in bloom.
  6. I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
  7. Again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria; the farmers will plant and enjoy the fruit.