Leviticus 19:10

“And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, etc.] Or cut off the little clusters which are, as Aben Ezra observes, like an infant, as the word signifies, infant clusters, which were small in comparison of the large ones, as infants are to men; those which had but a grape or two, or very few upon them, were not to be cut off, but left for the poor: and Gersom says, if the whole vine consisted of such clusters, it all belonged to the poor: neither shall thou gather [every] grape of thy vineyard; every particular single grape; these were such as were left on the vine after the large clusters were gathered, and a man upon viewing it again might not gather such as had only a single grape or two upon…”

“See Deuteronomy 24:19-21. “Grape” signifies fallen fruit of any kind; and “vineyard” a fruit garden of any kind. Compare Deuteronomy 23:24. The poor - is the poor Israelite - “the stranger” is properly the foreigner, who could possess no land of his own in the land of Israel. return to 'Top of Page'”

“I am the Lord your God - Who gave you all these things with a reservation of my right in them, and with a charge of giving part of them to the poor. Leviticus 19:12”

“glean: Jdg 8:2; Isa 17:6, Isa 24:13; Jer 49:9; Oba 1:5; Mic 7:1 thou shalt: Lev 25:6 Leviticus 19:11”