Deuteronomy 23:24
כִּי תָבֹא בְּכֶרֶם רֵעֶךָ וְאָכַלְתָּ עֲנָבִים כְּנַפְשְׁךָ שָׂבְעֶךָ וְאֶֽל־כֶּלְיְךָ לֹא תִתֵּֽן׃ ס
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✦ The same verse in five languages
כִּ֤י תָבֹא֙ בְּכֶ֣רֶם רֵעֶ֔ךָ וְאָכַלְתָּ֧ עֲנָבִ֛ים כְּנַפְשְׁךָ֖ שָׂבְעֶ֑ךָ וְאֶֽל־כֶּלְיְךָ֖ לֹ֥א תִתֵּֽן׃ ס
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.
Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0
Latin (Vulgate)
Ingressus vineam proximi tui, comede uvas, quantum tibi placuerit: foras autem ne efferas tecum.
Cuando entres en la viña de tu prójimo, podrás comer tu ración de uvas a tu antojo; pero no pondrás ninguna en tu recipiente.
Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)
Cuando entrares en la viña de tu prójimo, comerás uvas hasta saciar tu deseo: mas no pondrás en tu vaso.
When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, but you must not put any in your basket.
✦ What the text says
Summary
The verse permits a person who enters a neighbor's vineyard to eat grapes there until fully satisfied, but forbids taking any away in a container. It regulates immediate consumption versus removal of produce from another's field.
Key words
- ta.Vo' ("you will go/enter", H0935G) — qal imperfect, sets the conditional scenario of physically entering the vineyard.
- Khe.rem ("vineyard of", H3754) — construct form linking directly to re.'E.kha ("your neighbor"), marking whose property is entered.
- 'a.khal.Ta ("you will eat", H0398) — sequential perfect continuing the narrative logic begun by ki ("if"), expressing the permitted action.
- ke.naf.she.Kha ("according to your appetite", H5315L + H9021) — construct noun with suffix, quantifying the eating by personal desire rather than a fixed measure.
- ti.Ten ("you will put", H5414H) — qal imperfect negated by lo' ("not", H3808), prohibiting the act of placing grapes into a vessel for removal.
What the text says
The verse is built as a conditional clause introduced by ki ("if", H3588A), followed by a chain of verbs in narrative sequence: entering (ta.Vo'), eating ('a.khal.Ta), and the final prohibition (ti.Ten). The construct chains Khe.rem re.'E.kha ("vineyard of your neighbor") and naf.she.kha sa.ve.'E.kha ("appetite of your satiety") show how Biblical Hebrew stacks nouns without a separate word for "of," creating tight possessive and descriptive links.
The double expression ke.naf.she.kha sa.ve.'E.kha ("according to your appetite, your satiety") uses two nouns in sequence — "appetite" (H5315L) and "satiety" (H7648) — both governed by the preposition ke. ("according to", H9004) attached to the first. This doubling intensifies the sense of eating freely until full, though the grammar itself does not specify a numerical limit, only a subjective boundary of personal fullness.
The final clause reverses structure: instead of subject-verb-object, the object kel.ye.kha ("your vessel", H3627) is placed first via the preposition 'el ("into", H0413), followed by the negation lo' and the verb ti.Ten. This front-placement of the vessel emphasizes what is restricted — not the eating itself, but the act of collecting for removal.
Differences between versions
The Vulgate (comede uvas, quantum tibi placuerit) and RV1909/BSB/SBLIBRE renderings align with the Hebrew content of a vineyard and grapes. However, the LXX text supplied here (Ἐὰν δὲ εἰσέλθῃς εἰς ἀμητὸν τοῦ πλησίον σου... στάχυς... δρέπανον) speaks of entering a grain harvest (ἀμητός) and gathering ears of grain (στάχυς) with a sickle (δρέπανον), not a vineyard or grapes. This LXX wording corresponds instead to regulations about standing grain, differing entirely in subject matter from the Hebrew vineyard text presented for this verse.
This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.