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22 When you gather in the harvest[a] of your land, you must not completely harvest the corner of your field,[b] and you must not gather up the gleanings of your harvest. You must leave them for the poor and the resident foreigner.[c] I am the Lord your God.’”[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 23:22 tn Heb “And when you harvest the harvest.”
  2. Leviticus 23:22 tn Heb “you shall not complete the corner of your field in your harvest.”
  3. Leviticus 23:22 sn On the Hebrew גֵּר (ger, “resident foreigner”) see notes at Exod 12:19 and Deut 29:11. On the privilege of gleaning see also Lev 19:10; 23:22; Deut 14:29; 24:19-21.
  4. Leviticus 23:22 sn Cf. Lev 19:9-10.

22 “‘When you reap the harvest(A) of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.(B) Leave them for the poor and for the foreigner residing among you.(C) I am the Lord your God.’”

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