Deuteronomy 20:6

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

If any of you have planted a vineyard but haven't had your first grape harvest, you may go home. It isn't right for you to die in battle and for somebody else to enjoy your grapes.

Cross References

Isaiah 65:22

No one will take away their homes or vineyards. My chosen people will live to be as old as trees, and they will enjoy what they have earned.

Jeremiah 31:5

You will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria and enjoy the grapes.

Zephaniah 1:13

Their possessions will be taken, their homes left in ruins. They won't get to live in the houses they build, or drink wine from the grapes in their own vineyards.

1 Corinthians 9:7

Do soldiers pay their own salaries? Don't people who raise grapes eat some of what they grow? Don't shepherds get milk from their own goats?

Deuteronomy 20:5

Then the tribal officials will say to the troops: If any of you have built a new house, but haven't yet moved in, you may go home. It isn't right for you to die in battle and for somebody else to live in your new house.

Deuteronomy 20:7

If any of you are engaged to be married, you may go back home and get married. It isn't right for you to die in battle and for somebody else to marry the woman you are engaged to.