Deuteronomy 24:19

A forgotten sheaf at harvest is to be left for the foreigner, orphan, and widow, and God promises to bless such generosity. Leaving room for the poor invites the Lord's blessing.

Cross-references · 21

• Lev 23:22“‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you must not wholly reap into the corners of your field, and you must not gather the gleanings of your harvest. You must leave them for the poor, and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.’”
• Prov 19:17He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.
• Lev 19:9–10“‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.
• Luke 14:13–14But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;
• Deut 14:29The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
• Luke 6:38“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”
• 2 Cor 9:6–8Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
• Ps 112:9He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.
• Prov 11:24–25There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.
• Isa 58:7–11Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?
• Isa 32:8But the noble devises noble things; and he will continue in noble things.
• Deut 26:13You shall say before Yahweh your God, “I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them.
• Job 42:12So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.
• Ps 41:1–3For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.
• Deut 24:20–21When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
• Deut 15:10You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to.
• Ruth 2:16Also pull out some for her from the bundles, and leave it. Let her glean, and don’t rebuke her.”
• 1 Jn 3:17–19But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?
• Job 31:16–22“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
• Prov 14:21He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who has pity on the poor.
• Luke 6:35But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

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