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Deuteronomy 23:24 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" 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. "
Deuteronomy 23:24
Verse in Context
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22 But if you refrain from making a vow, it shall be no sin in you.
23 You shall observe and do that which has gone out of your lips. Whatever you have vowed to the LORD your God as a free will offering, which you have promised with your mouth, you must do.
24 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.
25 When you come into your neighbor’s standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not use a sickle on your neighbor’s standing grain.
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Deuteronomy 23:1
"He who is emasculated by crushing or cutting shall not enter into the LORD’s assembly."
Deuteronomy 23:2
"A person born of a forbidden union shall not enter into the LORD’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one of his enter into the LORD’s assembly."
Deuteronomy 23:3
"An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the LORD’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one belonging to them enter into the LORD’s assembly forever,"
Deuteronomy 23:4
"because they didn’t meet you with bread and with water on the way when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you."
Deuteronomy 23:5
"Nevertheless the LORD your God wouldn’t listen to Balaam, but the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because the LORD your God loved you."
Deuteronomy 23:6
"You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever."
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