Deuteronomy 24:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ When you beat your olive trees, do not strip what is left; it shall be for the alien, the orphan, and the widow.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ When you beat your olive tree, do not go over the boughs again; the leavings shall be for the stranger and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ When thou beatest thine olive-tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Similarly, when you beat the olives off your olive trees, don’t go back over them twice. Let the leftovers go to the immigrants, the orphans, and the widows.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ If you have gathered the fruit of your olive trees, you shall not return in order to gather whatever may remain on the trees. Instead, you shall leave it behind for the new arrival, the orphan, and the widow.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ If thou have gathered the fruit of thy olive trees, thou shalt not return to gather whatsoever remaineth on the trees: but shalt leave it for the stranger, for the fatherless, and the widow.

Deuteronomy 24:20 Cross References

Leviticus 19:10

You shall not strip your vineyard bare or gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and the alien: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 19:9

“When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.

Deuteronomy 24:19

“When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be left for the alien, the orphan, and the widow, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all your undertakings.

Deuteronomy 24:21

“When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, do not glean what is left; it shall be for the alien, the orphan, and the widow.