16 On the first day you will hold a holy convention, and on the seventh day, another holy convention. No work is to be done on these days.+ Only what every person* needs to eat, that alone may be prepared for you.

25 “If you go into your neighbor’s field of standing grain, you may pluck the ripe ears with your hand, but you should not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.+

23 Now as he was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, his disciples started to pluck the heads of grain as they went.+ 24 So the Pharisees said to him: “Look here! Why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?” 25 But he said to them: “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and the men with him were hungry?+ 26 How, in the account about A·biʹa·thar+ the chief priest, he entered into the house of God and ate the loaves of presentation, which it is not lawful for anybody to eat except the priests,+ and he also gave some to the men who were with him?” 27 Then he said to them: “The Sabbath came into existence for the sake of man,+ and not man for the sake of the Sabbath. 28 So the Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”+

6 Now on a sabbath he was passing through grainfields, and his disciples were plucking and eating the heads of grain,+ rubbing them with their hands.+ 2 At this some of the Pharisees said: “Why are you doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?”+ 3 But in reply Jesus said to them: “Have you never read what David did when he and the men with him were hungry?+ 4 How he entered into the house of God and received the loaves of presentation and ate and gave some to the men with him, which it is not lawful for anyone to eat but for the priests only?”+ 5 Then he said to them: “The Son of man is Lord of the Sabbath.”+