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Leviticus 23:21-23
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Leviticus 23:21-23
New English Translation
21 “‘On this very day you must proclaim an assembly; it is to be a holy assembly for you.[a] You must not do any regular work. This is a perpetual statute in all the places where you live throughout your generations.[b] 22 When you gather in the harvest[c] of your land, you must not completely harvest the corner of your field,[d] and you must not gather up the gleanings of your harvest. You must leave them for the poor and the resident foreigner.[e] I am the Lord your God.’”[f]
The Feast of Horn Blasts
23 The Lord spoke to Moses:
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- Leviticus 23:21 tn Heb “And you shall proclaim [an assembly] in the bone of this day; a holy assembly it shall be to you” (see the remarks in B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 160, and the remarks on the LXX rendering in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 367).
- Leviticus 23:21 tn Heb “for your generations.”
- Leviticus 23:22 tn Heb “And when you harvest the harvest.”
- Leviticus 23:22 tn Heb “you shall not complete the corner of your field in your harvest.”
- 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.
- Leviticus 23:22 sn Cf. Lev 19:9-10.
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