Irony of Deuteronomy

the irony
played out
in the field
joe don couldn't
let it be

deuteronomy 23:25
when thou comest into
the standing corn of thy
neighbor then thou mayest
pluck the ears with thine hand

zipper down
hand groping but
not so much as moving
again it came up deuteronomy
joe don couldn't let it be but thou
shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbor's
standing corn

he changed
the book to exodus 22:5
against the trespass of cattle
if a man shall cause a field or
vineyard to be eaten and shall put
in his beast and shall feed in another
man's field of the best of his own vineyard
shall he make restitution

zipper down
hand groping and moving
it was worth a load of proving
the hand of the laborer of the neighbor
often performed by hirelings luke 17:7 but
which of you having a servant plowing or feeding
cattle will say unto him by and by when he is come
from the field go and sit down to meat

the irony
played out
in the field
joe don couldn't
let it be he gave
the laborer his hire
the field was neither grape nor corn
nor anywhere in sight a heifer or bovine horn
the husbandry was planted in wheat

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