John Gill's Exposition on Deuteronomy 24:20

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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When thou beatest thine olive tree, etc.] 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: 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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