The Science in the Bible

Entry 34 · Section 4: Grow

Seed, Soil, and Realistic Yields

A sower scatters seed across a path, shallow soil, thorns, and productive ground with sharply different outcomes.

Scripture: Matt 13:3–8; Gen 26:12

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Illustrative reconstruction of a sower working across path, rocky soil, thorny margin, and good earth. The continuous landscape makes the narrative settings recognizable without claiming one surveyed field.
Illustrative reconstruction of a sower working across path, rocky soil, thorny margin, and good earth. The continuous landscape makes the narrative settings recognizable without claiming one surveyed field.

The question

How do 30-fold, 60-fold, and 100-fold returns compare with historical cereal return ratios?

Why it matters

The ratios describe return on seed, not modern yield per acre, and the passage does not supply crop, field area, or seed rate.

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