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When you gather [the grapes of] your vineyard, you shall not glean it after you: it shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
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Generosity from Gratitude
Commentators highlight that the command to care for the vulnerable is repeatedly tied to Israel's own experience: "remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt." This principle teaches that God's people should show mercy because they have received mercy, extending grace to others from the memory of their own redemption.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Compare the marginal references. The motive assigned for these various acts of consideration is one and the same (Deuteronomy 24:18, 22…
19th Century
Anglican
The stranger, the fatherless, and the widow — are the subject of all the laws in these verses. For the first two ([Reference Deute…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard Which was done much about the same time that the olives were gathered…
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It is not hard to prove that purity, piety, justice, mercy, fair conduct, kindness to the poor and destitute, consideration for them, and generosit…
