When you come into your neighbor’s standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not move a sickle to your neighbor’s standing grain.
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 23 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The Torah explicitly permits plucking heads of grain by hand from a neighbor's standing crop; the disciples' act is lawful in itself, so the dispute is purely about the Sabbath. This statute is the unspoken Availability that makes the Pharisees' objection narrowly Sabbatarian.
Medium confidence"When you come into your neighbor's standing grain, you may pluck the ears with your hand" legitimates the disciples' action itself (v.23); the Pharisees object only to the Sabbath timing, not the plucking. This law shows the disciples were not stealing, sharpening the dispute as purely about Sabbath observance. Verbal contact on plucking ears of standing grain.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Plucking grain heads by hand from a neighbor's standing crop is explicitly permitted (gleaning by hand, not sickle); the disciples' act is lawful as such — the dispute is only the Sabbath, not theft. Explains why the Pharisees object to the day, not the deed.
Medium confidence