OLD TESTAMENT

Leviticus 19:10

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You shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.

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Verse 10. Strangers. Septuagint and Syr. “proselytes,” who might dwell in the country. As the soil did not belong to them, great compassion was requisite: otherwise they must have perished, or become slaves.—Lord; the sole proprietor. Calmet.

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