Deuteronomy 28:39
28:39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink wine or gather in grapes, because worms will eat them.
Deuteronomy 16:21
Examples of Legal Cases
16:21 You must not plant any kind of tree as a sacred Asherah pole 1 near the altar of the Lord your God which you build for yourself.
Deuteronomy 20:6
20:6 Or who among you has planted a vineyard and not benefited from it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else benefit from it.
Deuteronomy 28:30
28:30 You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape
2 her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.
Deuteronomy 6:11
6:11 houses filled with choice things you did not accumulate, hewn out cisterns you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant – and you eat your fill,
1 tn Heb “an Asherah, any tree.”
1 tc For MT reading שָׁגַל (shagal, “ravish; violate”), the Syriac, Targum, and Vulgate presume the less violent שָׁכַב (shakhav, “lie with”). The unexpected counterpart to betrothal here favors the originality of the MT.