“And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the Lord your God.”
When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and for the foreigner residing among you. I am the Lord your God. The gleaning regulation of Leviticus 19:9–10 is inserted into the festival calendar at the Feast of Weeks — the harvest festival. The inclusion of the gleaning law within the harvest festival communicates that the celebration of the harvest is inseparable from the provision for those who cannot harvest their own. The poor and the foreigner are part of the Feast of Weeks' celebration through the gleaning that the festival mandate preserves for them. I am the Lord your God grounds both the feast and the gleaning in the covenant identity.
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