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23 Whatever you vow, you must be careful to do what you have promised, such as what you have vowed to the Lord your God as a freewill offering. 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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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 23:24 tn Heb “grapes according to your appetite, your fullness.”
  2. Deuteronomy 23:24 tn Heb “in your container”; NAB, NIV “your basket.”
  3. 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.