And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.
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And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard,.... Or cut off the little clusters which are, as Aben Ezra observes, like an infant, as the word signifies, infant clusters, which were small in comparison of…
See Deu 24:19-21. “Grape” signifies fallen fruit of any kind; and “vineyard” a fruit garden of any kind. Compare Deu 23:24. The poor - is the poor Israelite - “the stranger” is properly the foreigner,…
Moses is ordered to deliver the summary of the laws to all the congregation of the children of Israel (Lev 19:2); not to Aaron and his sons only, but to all the people, for they were all concerned to…
Cp. Lev 23:22. The law of gleaning: a portion of the produce of the soil is to be left for the poor. A similar law is found in Deu 24:19-21. The word translated - the fallen fruit" (-every grape,"…
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