Translation:Mishnah/Seder Zeraim/Tractate Peah/Chapter 7/7/Translation

If a vineyard consists entirely of grape gleanings,

R’ Eliezer says, “It is for the master of the house.”

R’ Akiva says, “It is for the poor.”

R’ Eliezer said, “’Because you harvest, you don’t glean.’ (Deuteronomy 24:21)

If you don’t harvest, where do the gleanings come from?”

R’ Akiva said to him, “And your vineyard is not gleaned by you (Leviticus 19:10),

Even if it is entirely gleanings.

If so, why does it say ‘because you harvest you don’t glean’?

This is for the poor who glean before the harvest.”