Leviticus 19:9-10
When you reap the harvest of your land, you
shall not reap your field right up to its edge, neither shall you gather the
gleanings after your harvest. 10 And you shall not strip your vineyard bare,
neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave
them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God.
What we often times call thorough, God
calls greed. What can often be justified under the pretense of "waste not,
want not," can, in fact, be the sin of hoarding. Here we see God
instructing His people to be less exacting in their harvesting in order to provide
for those who have no fields – the poor and the traveler-through.
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