This is a domestical precept, requiring both industry and prudence in the management of a man's concerns, that he take care in the first place to furnish himself with cattle and the fruits of the field, which are necessary for his subsistence, and after that he may procure such things as are for ornament and comfort, such as the building of a convenient house is.
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Proverbs 24:27
27 Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.