¹¹ And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so.

⁷ For a land, drinking in the frequent rain and producing good plants for those for whom it is worked, has a blessing from God:

³⁰ But if God gives such clothing to the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is put into the oven, will he not much more give you clothing, O you of little faith?

⁸ By his hand the heaven is covered with clouds and rain is stored up for the earth; he makes the grass tall on the mountains.

¹⁴ He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth;

¹⁵ And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart.

¹⁶ The trees of the Lord are full of growth, the cedars of Lebanon of his planting;

¹⁷ Where the birds have their resting-places; as for the stork, the tall trees are her house.

⁹ You have given your blessing to the earth, watering it and making it fertile; the river of God is full of water: and having made it ready, you give men grain.

¹⁰ You make the ploughed lands full of water; you make smooth the slopes: you make the earth soft with showers, sending your blessing on its growth.

¹¹ The year is crowned with the good you give; life-giving rain is dropping from your footsteps,

¹² Falling on the grass of the waste land: and the little hills are glad on every side.

¹³ The grass-land is thick with flocks; the valleys are full of grain; they give glad cries and songs of joy.

²⁹ And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food:

⁸ For he will be like a tree planted by the waters, pushing out its roots by the stream; he will have no fear when the heat comes, but his leaf will be green; in a dry year he will have no care, and will go on giving fruit.

¹² Is a fig-tree able to give us olives, my brothers, or do we get figs from a vine, or sweet water from the salt sea?

⁴³ For no good tree gives bad fruit, and no bad tree gives good fruit.

⁴⁴ For every tree is judged by its fruit. Men do not get figs from thorns, or grapes from blackberry plants.

²⁸ The earth gives fruit by herself; first the leaf, then the head, then the full grain.

¹⁶ By their fruits you will get knowledge of them. Do men get grapes from thorns or figs from thistles?

¹⁷ Even so, every good tree gives good fruit; but the bad tree gives evil fruit.

¹⁸ It is not possible for a good tree to give bad fruit, and a bad tree will not give good fruit.

¹⁹ Every tree which does not give good fruit is cut down and put in the fire.

²⁰ So by their fruits you will get knowledge of them.

¹⁰ And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; every tree then which does not give good fruit is cut down, and put into the fire.

³ He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.

⁵ As for the earth, bread comes out of it; but under its face it is turned up as if by fire.

¹⁶ And the Lord God gave the man orders, saying, You may freely take of the fruit of every tree of the garden:

⁹ And out of the earth the Lord made every tree to come, delighting the eye and good for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

⁵ In the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven there were no plants of the field on the earth, and no grass had come up: for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to do work on the land.