Deuteronomy 24:19

New Century Version

When you are gathering your harvest in the field and leave behind a bundle of grain, don’t go back and get it. Leave it there for foreigners, orphans, and widows so that the Lord your God can bless everything you do.

Cross References

Job 42:12

The Lord blessed the last part of Job’s life even more than the first part. Job had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand teams of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

Psalm 112:9

They give freely to the poor. The things they do are right and will continue forever. They will be given great honor.

Proverbs 14:21

It is a sin to hate your neighbor, but being kind to the needy brings happiness.

Proverbs 19:17

Being kind to the poor is like lending to the Lord; he will reward you for what you have done.

Isaiah 32:8

But a good leader plans to do good, and those good things make him a good leader.

Leviticus 23:22

“ ‘When you harvest your crops on your land, do not harvest all the way to the corners of your field. If grain falls onto the ground, don’t gather it up. Leave it for poor people and foreigners in your country. I am the Lord your God.’ ”

Luke 6:35

But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without hoping to get anything back. Then you will have a great reward, and you will be children of the Most High God, because he is kind even to people who are ungrateful and full of sin.

Luke 6:38

Give, and you will receive. You will be given much. Pressed down, shaken together, and running over, it will spill into your lap. The way you give to others is the way God will give to you.”

Deuteronomy 14:29

This is for the Levites so they may eat and be full. (They have no land of their own among you.) It is also for strangers, orphans, and widows who live in your towns so that all of them may eat and be full. Then the Lord your God will bless you and all the work you do.

Deuteronomy 15:10

Give freely to the poor person, and do not wish that you didn’t have to give. The Lord your God will bless your work and everything you touch.

Deuteronomy 24:18

Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and the Lord your God saved you from there. That is why I am commanding you to do this.

Deuteronomy 26:13

Then say to the Lord your God, “I have taken out of my house the part of my harvest that belongs to God, and I have given it to the Levites, foreigners, orphans, and widows. I have done everything you commanded me; I have not broken your commands, and I have not forgotten any of them.

Ruth 2:16

In fact, drop some full heads of grain for her from what you have in your hands, and let her gather them. Don’t tell her to stop.”

Ruth 2:2

One day Ruth, the Moabite, said to Naomi, “I am going to the fields. Maybe someone will be kind enough to let me gather the grain he leaves behind.” Naomi said, “Go, my daughter.”