Deuteronomy 23:25
If thou go into thy friend's corn, thou mayst break the ears, and rub them in thy hand: but not reap them with a sickle.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Si intraveris in segetem amici tui, franges spicas, et manu conteres : falce autem non metes.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Deuteronomy 23:24
- Ἐὰν δὲ εἰσέλθῃς εἰς ἀμητὸν τοῦ πλησίον σου, καὶ συλλέξεις ἐν ταῖς χερσίν σου στάχυς, καὶ δρέπανον οὐ μὴ ἐπιβάλῃς ἐπ᾽ ἀμητὸν τοῦ πλησίον σου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Deuteronomy 23:26
- כִּ֤י תָבֹא֙ בְּקָמַ֣ת רֵעֶ֔ךָ וְקָטַפְתָּ֥ מְלִילֹ֖ת בְּיָדֶ֑ךָ וְחֶרְמֵשׁ֙ לֹ֣א תָנִ֔יף עַ֖ל קָמַ֥ת רֵעֶֽךָ
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Of the Work of Monks, Section 28
28. Here then shall these persons in their turn be in another more sublime degree of righteousness outdone, by them who shall so order themselves, that every day they shall betake them into the fields as unto pasture, and at what time they shall find it, pick up their meal, and having allayed their hunger, return. But plainly, on account of the keepers of the fields, how good were it, if the Lord should deign to bestow wings also, that the servants of God being found in other men’s fields should not be taken up as thieves, but as starlings be scared off. As things are, however, such an one will do all he can to be like a bird, which the fowler shall not be able to catch. …