Deuteronomy 24:19 meaning and explanation
If you are harvesting in your field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
Deuteronomy 24:19, Berean Standard Bible
Explanation preview
Moses is speaking to Israel as they prepare to settle in the land, setting out laws that shape daily economic life. A forgotten sheaf was not to be retrieved; it belonged to the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, the three groups with no land or family to support them.
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