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Genesis 9:20

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And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
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  1. Deuteronomy 20:6Rank 1 from verse 20
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    6And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.

  2. Deuteronomy 28:30Rank 2 from verse 20
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    30Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.

  3. Ecclesiastes 5:9Rank 3 from verse 20
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    9¶ Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.

  4. Genesis 3:18–19Rank 4 from verse 20
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    18Thorns 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.

  5. Genesis 3:23Rank 5 from verse 20
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    23Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

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Genesis 9:20

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began

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Past-tense or past-participial form of begin (to have an original or first existence; to take rise; to commence).

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19These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.

20And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:

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21And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

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