Deuteronomy 23:24-25
New International Version
24 If you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat all the grapes you want, but do not put any in your basket. 25 If you enter your neighbor’s grainfield, you may pick kernels with your hands, but you must not put a sickle to their standing grain.(A)
Deuteronomy 23:24-25
New English Translation
24 When you enter the vineyard of your neighbor you may eat as many grapes as you please,[a] but you must not take away any in a container.[b] 25 When you go into the ripe grain fields of your neighbor you may pluck off the kernels with your hand,[c] but you must not use a sickle on your neighbor’s ripe grain.
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- Deuteronomy 23:24 tn Heb “grapes according to your appetite, your fullness.”
- Deuteronomy 23:24 tn Heb “in your container”; NAB, NIV “your basket.”
- Deuteronomy 23:25 sn For the continuation of these practices into NT times see Matt 12:1-8; Mark 2:23-28; Luke 6:1-5.
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