New Revised Standard Version
It is the farmer who does the work who ought to have the first share of the crops.

Contemporary English Version
And farmers who work hard are the first to eat what grows in their field.

New American Bible
The hardworking farmer ought to have the first share of the crop.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The husbandman that laboureth must first partake of the fruits.

The husbandman that laboureth must first partake of the fruits.

husbandman.

Isaiah 28:24-26 Shall the ploughman plough all the day to sow, shall he open and harrow his ground? . . .

Matthew 9:37,38 Then he saith to his disciples, The harvest indeed is great, but the labourers are few. . . .

Matthew 20:1 The kingdom of heaven is like to an householder, who went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.

Matthew 21:33-41 Hear ye another parable. There was a man, an householder, who planted a vineyard and made a hedge round about it and dug in it a press and built a tower and let it out to husbandmen and went into a strange country. . . .

Luke 10:2 And he said to them: The harvest indeed is great, but the labourers are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he send labourers into his harvest.

John 4:35-38 Do not you say: There are yet four months, and then the harvest cometh? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and see the countries. For they are white already to harvest. . . .

1 Corinthians 3:6-9 I have planted, Apollo watered: but God gave the increase. . . .

1 Corinthians 9:7-11 Who serveth as a soldier, at any time, at his own charges? Who planteth a vineyard and eateth not of the fruit thereof? Who feedeth the flock and eateth not of the milk of the flock? . . .

1 Corinthians 9:23 And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I may be made partaker thereof.

Hebrews 10:36 For patience is necessary for you: that, doing the will of God, you may receive the promise.