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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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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

On Deuteronomy 24:17–22

18th Century

Theologian

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

On Deuteronomy 24:17–22

19th Century

Bishop

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

John Gill

John Gill

On Deuteronomy 24:21

17th Century

Pastor

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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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

On Deuteronomy 24:14–22

17th Century

Minister

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