And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Genesis 2:7

It all began With God.

In Heaven
Ezekiel 28
13Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God…

Cursed is the Ground…Thy sake

Gen 1
[1] In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. [31] And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Gen 2
8And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
15And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

Genesis 2

9And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
10And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

Where should man get his food from?

Certainly, it was from the ground.

The best occupation that our Creator gave to man was to till the land. What a wonderful work for us even today!

‘God is a lover of the beautiful. He has given us unmistakable evidence of this in the work of His hands. He planted for our first parents a beautiful garden in Eden. Stately trees were caused to grow out of the ground, of every description, for usefulness and ornament. The beautiful flowers were formed, of rare loveliness, of every tint and hue, perfuming the air. . . It was the design of God that man should find happiness in the employment of tending the things He had created, and that his wants should be met with the fruits of the trees of the garden’. {Adventist Home page 27}

Genesis 3

17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed [is] the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat [of] it all the days of thy life;
18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou [art], and unto dust shalt thou return.

Because of sin, Earth lost its strength to produce.

Genesis 4
11 And now [art] thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand;
12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

Noah Continued with the divine Plan of God.

Genesis 9
20And Noah began [to be] an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:

Leviticus 25

1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD.
3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;
4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
5 That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: [for] it is a year of rest unto the land.

Leviticus 19

19 Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.

Lessons from Agriculture in the Bible

Children of Israel compared to the planted vineyard ;Isaiah 5:1-6
Righteous man compared unto a tree besides the river banks; Psalms 1:3
Righteous man compared to green olive tree, Jeremiah 11:16
The word of God is compared with the seed; mark 4:14,Mathew 13:18-41
The growth of Christian compared to stages of growth of a corn, mark 4:26-29
Exercising faith is compared to a mustard seed; mark 4:31
Harvesting of the world after the final warning is given to the world ;Revelation 14:14-16

Blessings of Agriculture

Proverbs 12
11 He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain [persons is] void of understanding.

Proverbs 28

19 He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain [persons] shall have poverty enough.

Blessings from the soil

If the land is cultivated, it will, with the blessing of God, supply our necessities. We are not to be discouraged about temporal things because of apparent failures, nor should we be disheartened by delay. We should work the soil cheerfully, hopefully, gratefully, believing that the earth holds in her bosom rich stores for the faithful worker to garner, stores richer than gold or silver. The niggardliness laid to her charge is false witness. With proper, intelligent cultivation the earth will yield its treasures for the benefit of man. The mountains and hills are changing; the earth is waxing old like a garment; but the blessing of God, which spreads a table for His people in the wilderness, will never cease. {6T 178.2}

James 5

7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.