Positive Commandment #247 of 613
Leave the forgotten sheaves in the field for the poor
Commandment #247 — a positive obligation from Deuteronomy 24:19, classified under Providing for the Poor in the 613 commandments of the Torah.
Scripture
“"When you reap your harvest in your field and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, in order that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.”
— Deuteronomy 24:19
Hebrew
יט כִּי תִקְצֹר קְצִירְךָ בְשָׂדֶךָ וְשָׁכַחְתָּ עֹמֶר בַּשָּׂדֶה, לֹא תָשׁוּב לְקַחְתּוֹ--לַגֵּר לַיָּתוֹם וְלָאַלְמָנָה, יִהְיֶה: לְמַעַן יְבָרֶכְךָ יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ, בְּכֹל מַעֲשֵׂה יָדֶיךָ. {ס}
Greek (Septuagint)
19 Ἐὰν δὲ ἀμήσῃς ἀμητὸν ἐν τῷ ἀγρῷ σου καὶ ἐπιλάθῃ δράγμα ἐν τῷ ἀγρῷ σου, οὐκ ἐπαναστραφήσῃ λαβεῖν αὐτό· τῷ πτωχῷ καὶ τῷ προσηλύτῳ καὶ τῷ ὀρφανῷ καὶ τῇ χήρᾳ ἔσται, ἵνα εὐλογήσῃ σε κύριος ὁ θεός σου ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς ἔργοις τῶν χειρῶν σου.
Classification
- Type
- Positive (Thou Shalt)
- Category
- Providing for the Poor
- Book
- deuteronomy
- Chapter
- 24
Scholarly References
- Parashah
- Ki Tetze
- Mishneh Torah
- SeedsGifts to the Poor
Related Commandments in “Providing for the Poor”
#239: Leave a corner of the field uncut for the poor
Leviticus 19:10
#240: Do not reap the corner of a field left for the poor
Leviticus 19:9
#241: Leave gleanings of a field for the poor
Leviticus 19:9
#242: Do not gather gleanings of a crop but leave them for the poor
Leviticus 19:9
#243: Leave the gleanings of a vineyard for the poor
Leviticus 19:10
#244: Do not gather the gleanings of a vineyard but leave them for the poor
Leviticus 19:10
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