When 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.
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When 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.
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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.
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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.
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 24:20 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Leviticus 19:10 You shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, gatherest thine olives.
Or, gatherest thine olives.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain When thou beatest thine olive tree with staves, as…
When thou beatest thine olive tree with staves, as they used to do to fetch down the olives.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain When thou beatest thine olive tree,.... With sticks and…
When thou beatest thine olive tree,.... With sticks and staves, to get off the olives when ripe:
thou shall not go over the boughs again; to beat off some few that may remain; they were not nicely to examine the boughs over again, whether there were any left or not:
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it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow; who might come into their oliveyards after the trees had been beaten, and gather what were left.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 20. beatest thine olive tree] Isa_27:6; Isa_24:13 (but with…
20. beatest thine olive tree] Isa_27:6; Isa_24:13 (but with another vb. for beating). ‘Some climb into the trees and shake the boughs, while others stand below and beat off the fruit with long slender poles’ (Van Lennep, op. cit. 128).
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