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“‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.
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Verse 9. Ground. Hebrew and Septuagint “the extremity of thy field.” The Rabbins say, a sixtieth part of all the products of the earth, was to be left for the poor. Seld. Jur. vi. 6. Thus God teaches his people to exercise themselves in the acts of mercy. D.
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