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When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
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Verse 19. Forget. The Rabbins say, that both the owner and the labourers must forget the sheaf: but his is a vain subtlety. Calmet.—Josephus (iv. 8,) is more agreeable to the spirit of the law, when he ( Bible.) observes that gleanings, and some of the fruit of the vine and olive trees, were to be left on purpose for the poor. Leviticus 19:9. Menochius.
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