Deuteronomy 23:25
ContextNET © | When you go into the ripe grain fields of your neighbor you may pluck off the kernels with your hand, 1 but you must not use a sickle on your neighbor’s ripe grain. |
NIV © | If you enter your neighbour’s cornfield, you may pick the ears with your hands, but you must not put a sickle to his standing corn. |
NASB © | "When you enter your neighbor’s standing grain, then you may pluck the heads with your hand, but you shall not wield a sickle in your neighbor’s standing grain. |
NLT © | And you may pluck a few heads of your neighbor’s grain by hand, but you may not harvest it with a sickle. |
MSG © | And when you walk through the ripe grain of your neighbor, you may pick the heads of grain, but you may not swing your sickle there. |
BBE © | When you go into your neighbour’s field, you may take the heads of grain with your hand; but you may not put your blade to his grain. |
NRSV © | If you go into your neighbor’s standing grain, you may pluck the ears with your hand, but you shall not put a sickle to your neighbor’s standing grain. |
NKJV © | "When you come into your neighbor’s standing grain, you may pluck the heads with your hand, but you shall not use a sickle on your neighbor’s standing grain. |
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NET © | When you go into the ripe grain fields of your neighbor you may pluck off the kernels with your hand, 1 but you must not use a sickle on your neighbor’s ripe grain. |
NET © Notes |
1 sn For the continuation of these practices into NT times see Matt 12:1-8; Mark 2:23-28; Luke 6:1-5. |