When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it: it shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

Commentaries

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century
Presbyterian
18th Century

Compare the marginal references. The motive assigned for these various acts of consideration is one and the same (Deuteronomy 24:18, 22…

Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century
Anglican
19th Century

The stranger, the fatherless, and the widow — are the subject of all the laws in these verses. For the first two ([Reference Deute…

John Calvin

John Calvin

JohnCalvin

16th Century
Protestant
16th Century

God here impresses upon landowners the importance of liberality when their fruits are gathered. For when His bounty is displayed before our eyes, i…

John Gill

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century
Reformed Baptist
17th Century

When you cut down your harvest in your field
Whether barley harvest or wheat harvest, when either of them are ripe f…

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century
Presbyterian
17th Century

It is not hard to prove that purity, piety, justice, mercy, fair conduct, kindness to the poor and destitute, consideration for them, and generosit…

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