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.
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Verse 24. Thee. Hebrew “thou shalt not put into thy vessel,” or basket. This privilege is restrained by the Chal. and so forth to vintagers. But Josephus (iv. 8) extends it to all; and he says that those who did not even invite travellers to partake of their grapes, and other fruit, were to be punished with 39 lashes.
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