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When you come into your neighbor`s standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not move a sickle to your neighbor`s standing grain.
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Provision for the Hungry
Commentators explain this law as a provision for the immediate needs of a traveler. Someone passing through a field was permitted to pluck ears of grain by hand to satisfy their hunger. John Gill notes this is exactly what Jesus's disciples did in the New Testament (Matthew 12:1), illustrating the law's practical application.
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Deuteronomy
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