Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageWhen you enter your neighbor's field of standing grain, you may pluck heads of grain with your hand—but do not swing a sickle at your neighbor's standing grain.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GWhen you enter your neighbour's standing grain, you may pluck ears with your hand, but you shall not put a sickle to your neighbour's standing grain.
KJV
King James VersionWhen thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleWhen 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.
Footnotes
These gleaning laws extend the principle of Leviticus 19:9–10 to the context of passing through a neighbour's field or vineyard. The permission is sacred hospitality embedded in law: hunger may be satisfied freely, but commercial extraction for profit is forbidden. The specific scenario of hand-plucking grain directly anticipates Matthew 12:1 and Mark 2:23, where Yeshua/Jesus invokes precisely this lawful right in his Sabbath dispute with the Pharisees—demonstrating that he reads Torah with the same nuance it was written with. FOG preserves 'neighbour' (UK spelling); FOG Message's phrasing draws the typological arrow forward to that Gospel scene.