Genesis 4:2 And she again bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. Torrey's Topical Textbook
Genesis 9:20 And Noah began to be an farmer, and he planted a vineyard: Torrey's Topical Textbook
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Answer to Eunomius' Second Book . ... the sacred company of the Prophets and Patriarchs, to whom ... to use it, any more than that farming should be ... What of agriculture, of navigation, and of the other ... /.../gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/answer to eunomius second book.htm