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.
Leviticus 19:9 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised ‘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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field to its very corners, neither shall you gather the fallen ears or gleanings of your harvest. American Standard Version (1901) And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleaning of thy harvest. Common English Bible When you harvest your land’s produce, you must not harvest all the way to the edge of your field; and don’t gather up every remaining bit of your harvest. Catholic Public Domain Version When you will have harvested the grain fields of your land, you shall not cut it down to the surface of the land, even to the ground, nor shall you gather the remaining ears of grain. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version When thou reapest the corn of thy land, thou shalt not cut down all that is on the face of the earth to the very ground: nor shalt thou gather the ears that remain. |
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.
Anyone who eats it will bear his iniquity, for he has profaned what is holy to the Lord. That person is to be cut off from his people.
‘Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land I am giving you and reap its harvest, you are to bring the first sheaf of your harvest to the priest.
When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap all the way to the edge of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the resident foreigner; I am the Lord your God.’
If any person does not practise self-denial on this particular day, he is to be cut off from his people.
When she got up to gather corn, Boaz ordered his young men, ‘Let her even gather corn among the bundles, and don’t humiliate her.
Ruth the Moabitess asked Naomi, ‘Will you let me go into the fields and gather fallen corn behind someone with whom I find favour? ’ Naomi answered her, ‘Go ahead, my daughter.’
Then Boaz said to Ruth, ‘Listen, my daughter. Don’t go and gather corn in another field, and don’t leave this one, but stay here close to my female servants.