Do not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the resident foreigner; I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 24:20 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised When you knock down the fruit from your olive tree, do not go over the branches again. What remains will be for the resident foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 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. |
Do not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the resident foreigner; I am the Lord your God.
‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edge of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.
‘When you reap the harvest in your field, and you forget a sheaf in the field, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the resident foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, do not glean what is left. What remains will be for the resident foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.