Deuteronomy 23:25

23:25 When you go into the ripe grain fields of your neighbor you may pluck off the kernels with your hand, ¹  but you must not use a sickle on your neighbor’s ripe grain.

Deuteronomy 16:9

The Festival of Weeks

16:9 You must count seven weeks; you must begin to count them ²  from the time you begin to harvest the standing grain.

[23:25]  ¹ sn For the continuation of these practices into NT times see Matt 12:1-8; Mark 2:23-28; Luke 6:1-5.

[16:9]  ² tn Heb “the seven weeks.” The translation uses a pronoun to avoid redundancy in English.