Deuteronomy 23:24
New International Version
If you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat all the grapes you want, but do not put any in your basket.

New Living Translation
“When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, but you must not carry any away in a basket.

English Standard Version
“If you go into your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, as many as you wish, but you shall not put any in your bag.

Berean Standard Bible
When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, but you must not put any in your basket.

King James Bible
When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel.

New King James Version
“When you come into your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes at your pleasure, but you shall not put any in your container.

New American Standard Bible
“When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat grapes until you are satisfied; but you are not to put any in your basket.

NASB 1995
“When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, then you may eat grapes until you are fully satisfied, but you shall not put any in your basket.

NASB 1977
“When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, then you may eat grapes until you are fully satisfied, but you shall not put any in your basket.

Legacy Standard Bible
“When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, then you may eat grapes until you are fully satisfied, but you shall not put any in your basket.

Amplified Bible
“When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, as many as you please, but you shall not put any in your basket [to take with you].

Christian Standard Bible
“When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat as many grapes as you want until you are full, but do not put any in your container.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat as many grapes as you want until you are full, but you must not put any in your container.

American Standard Version
When thou comest into thy neighbor's vineyard, then thou mayest eat of grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel.

Contemporary English Version
If you go into a vineyard that belongs to someone else, you are allowed to eat as many grapes as you want while you are there. But don't take any with you when you leave.

English Revised Version
When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
If you go into your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat as many grapes as you like until you're full. But never put any in your basket.

Good News Translation
"When you walk along a path in someone else's vineyard, you may eat all the grapes you want, but you must not carry any away in a container.

International Standard Version
"When you enter your countrymen's vineyard, you may eat the grapes to your satisfaction, but don't take any in a basket.

Majority Standard Bible
When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, but you must not put any in your basket.

NET Bible
When you enter the vineyard of your neighbor you may eat as many grapes as you please, but you must not take away any in a container.

New Heart English Bible
When you come into your neighbor's vineyard, then you may eat of grapes your fill at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your vessel.

Webster's Bible Translation
When thou comest into thy neighbor's vineyard, then thou mayest satisfy thy appetite with grapes at thy own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel.

World English Bible
When you come into your neighbor’s vineyard, then you may eat your fill of grapes at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your container.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
When you come into the vineyard of your neighbor, then you have eaten grapes according to your desire, your sufficiency, but you do not put [any] into your vessel.

Young's Literal Translation
When thou comest in unto the vineyard of thy neighbour, then thou hast eaten grapes, according to thy desire, thy sufficiency; but into thy vessel thou dost not put any.

Smith's Literal Translation
When thou shalt come into the vineyard of thy friend, and eat there grapes according to thy soul, to thy satisfying; and thou shalt not give into thy vessel.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Going into thy neighbour's vineyard, thou mayst eat as many grapes as thou pleasest: but must carry none out with thee:

Catholic Public Domain Version
Upon entering your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat as many grapes as you please. But you may not carry any out with you.

New American Bible
When you go through your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat as many grapes as you wish, until you are satisfied, but do not put them in your basket.

New Revised Standard Version
If you go into your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, as many as you wish, but you shall not put any in a container.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
When you come into your neighbor's vineyard, then you may eat grapes, your fill at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any into your vessel.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And when you enter the vineyard of your neighbor, eat grapes until your soul is full, and do not put into your garment.
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes until thou have enough at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And if thou shouldest go into the vineyard of thy neighbour, thou shalt eat grapes sufficient to satisfy thy desire; but thou mayest not put them into a vessel.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Miscellaneous Laws
23Be careful to follow through on what comes from your lips, because you have freely vowed to the LORD your God with your own mouth. 24When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, but you must not put any in your basket. 25When you enter your neighbor’s grainfield, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.…

Cross References
Leviticus 19:9-10
When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. / You must not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.

Matthew 12:1
At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them.

Mark 2:23
One Sabbath Jesus was passing through the grainfields, and His disciples began to pick the heads of grain as they walked along.

Luke 6:1
One Sabbath Jesus was passing through the grainfields, and His disciples began to pick the heads of grain, rub them in their hands, and eat them.

Ruth 2:2-3
And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go into the fields and glean heads of grain after someone in whose sight I may find favor.” “Go ahead, my daughter,” Naomi replied. / So Ruth departed and went out into the field and gleaned after the harvesters. And she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelech.

Exodus 22:6
If a fire breaks out and spreads to thornbushes so that it consumes stacked or standing grain, or the whole field, the one who started the fire must make full restitution.

Proverbs 25:16
If you find honey, eat just what you need, lest you have too much and vomit it up.

Matthew 20:1-16
“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. / He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard. / About the third hour he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. ...

1 Samuel 25:18
Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys

2 Kings 4:42-44
Now a man from Baal-shalishah came to the man of God with a sack of twenty loaves of barley bread from the first ripe grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha. / But his servant asked, “How am I to set twenty loaves before a hundred men?” “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha, “for this is what the LORD says: ‘They will eat and have some left over.’” / So he set it before them, and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of the LORD.

Isaiah 17:5-6
as the reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests the ears with his arm, as one gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim. / Yet gleanings will remain, like an olive tree that has been beaten—two or three berries atop the tree, four or five on its fruitful branches,” declares the LORD, the God of Israel.

Jeremiah 49:9
If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings? Were thieves to come in the night, would they not steal only what they wanted?

Obadiah 1:5
“If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, how you will be ruined—would they not steal only what they wanted? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?

Matthew 21:33-41
Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey. / When the harvest time drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit. / But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. ...

Romans 15:27
They were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual blessings, they are obligated to minister to them with material blessings.


Treasury of Scripture

When you come into your neighbor's vineyard, then you may eat grapes your fill at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your vessel.

thou mayest

Romans 12:13
Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.

1 Corinthians 10:26
For the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.

Hebrews 13:5
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

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Deuteronomy 23
1. Who may or may not enter into the congregation
9. Uncleanness is to be avoided in the host
15. Of the fugitive servant
17. Of filthiness
18. Of abominable sacrifices
19. Of usury
20. Of vows
24. Of trespass














When you enter
The Hebrew root for "enter" is "בּוֹא" (bo), which implies not just a physical entry but also a permission or allowance to partake in something. In the context of ancient Israel, entering someone’s property was a significant act, often associated with trust and community. This phrase sets the stage for understanding the communal and covenantal relationships among the Israelites, where boundaries were respected, yet generosity was encouraged.

your neighbor’s vineyard
The term "neighbor" in Hebrew is "רֵעֶךָ" (re'ekha), which denotes not just a physical neighbor but a fellow member of the covenant community. The "vineyard" symbolizes prosperity and blessing in the agrarian society of ancient Israel. Vineyards were valuable assets, and the mention of a neighbor’s vineyard highlights the importance of community sharing and the ethical treatment of one another’s property.

you may eat your fill of grapes
The permission to "eat your fill" reflects the Hebrew concept of "אָכַל" (akal), which means to consume or partake. This phrase underscores the principle of sufficiency and contentment. It is a reminder of God’s provision and the importance of not exploiting generosity. The act of eating grapes directly from the vineyard signifies a trust-based relationship where needs are met without greed.

but you must not put any in your basket
The prohibition against putting grapes in a "basket" (Hebrew: "כְּלִי" - keli) serves as a boundary to prevent exploitation. This phrase teaches the principle of moderation and respect for others’ property. It reflects a balance between enjoying the fruits of the land and maintaining integrity. The basket symbolizes potential greed or hoarding, which is discouraged in favor of trust and reliance on God’s ongoing provision.

(24) When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard.--Rashi tries to limit both this and the following precept to the labourer engaged in gathering the vintage or the harvest, when vessels are used and sickles employed. But the plain meaning will stand, and is accepted by our Lord in the Gospel. The objection made to His disciples was not that they plucked their neighbour's corn, but that they did it on the Sabbath (a kind of harvesting, and therefore unlawful according to the scribes).

Verses 24, 25. - In the vineyard or cornfield of a neighbor they might eat to appease hunger, but no store of grapes or of grain might be carried away. At thine own pleasure; literally, according to thy soul, i.e. desire or appetite (cf. Deuteronomy 14:26). Pluck the ears with thine hand (cf. Matthew 12:1; Luke 6:1). Among the Arabs of the present day the right of a hungry person to pluck ears of corn in a field and eat the grains is still recognized (Robinson, 'Bib. Res.,' 2:192; Thomson, 'Land and the Book,' 2:510).



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
When
כִּ֤י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

you enter
תָבֹא֙ (ṯā·ḇō)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

your neighbor’s
רֵעֶ֔ךָ (rê·‘e·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 7453: Friend, companion, fellow

vineyard,
בְּכֶ֣רֶם (bə·ḵe·rem)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3754: A garden, vineyard

you may eat
וְאָכַלְתָּ֧ (wə·’ā·ḵal·tā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 398: To eat

your
כְּנַפְשְׁךָ֖ (kə·nap̄·šə·ḵā)
Preposition-k | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion

fill of
שָׂבְעֶ֑ךָ (śā·ḇə·‘e·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 7648: Satisfaction, joy)

grapes,
עֲנָבִ֛ים (‘ă·nā·ḇîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 6025: A grape

but you must not
לֹ֥א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

put
תִתֵּֽן׃ (ṯit·tên)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

any in
וְאֶֽל־ (wə·’el-)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

your basket.
כֶּלְיְךָ֖ (kel·yə·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3627: Something prepared, any apparatus


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