²⁷ Day and night, as he works and as he sleeps, the seeds sprout and climb out into the light, even though he doesn’t understand how it works. ²⁸ It’s as though the soil itself produced the grain somehow—from a sprouted stalk to ripened fruit. ²⁹ But however it happens, when he sees that the grain has grown and ripened, he gets his sickle and begins to cut it because the harvest has come.