Bible Cross References
And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 19:9
And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not complete the reaping of your field with exactness, and you shall not gather that which falls from your reaping.
Leviticus 19:10
And you shall not go over the gathering of your vineyard, neither shall you gather the remaining grapes of your vineyard: you shall leave them for the poor and the stranger: I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 16:11-14
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And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son, and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow which dwells among you, in whatsoever place the Lord your God shall choose, that His name should be called there.
12
And you shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and you shall observe and do these commands.
13
You shall keep for yourself the Feast of Tabernacles seven days, when you gather in [your produce] from your threshing floor and your winepress.
14
And you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow that is in your cities.
Deuteronomy 24:19-21
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And when you have reaped the grain in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in your field, you shall not return to take it; it shall be for the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the works of your hands.
20
And if you should gather your olives, you shall not return to collect the remainder; it shall be for the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, and you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I command you to do this thing.
21
And whenever you shall gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean what you have left; it shall be for the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow;
Ruth 2:3-7
3
And she went; and came and gleaned in the field behind the reapers; and she happened by chance to come on a portion of the land of Boaz, of the kindred of Elimelech.
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And behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, The Lord [be] with you. And they said to him, The Lord bless you.
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And Boaz said to his servant who was set over the reapers, Whose young woman [is] this?
6
And his servant who was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the young Moabite woman who returned with Naomi out of the land of Moab.
7
And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the reapers. And she came and stood from morning till evening, and rested not, [even] a little, in the field.
Ruth 2:15-7
Ruth 2:16-23
16
And by all means carry it for her, and you shall surely let fall for her some of that which is heaped up; and let her eat, and glean, and rebuke her not.
17
So she gleaned in the field till evening, and beat out that she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barely.
18
And she took [it] up, and went into the city. And her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned, and Ruth brought forth and gave to her the food which she had left from what she had been satisfied with.
19
And her mother-in-law said to her, Where have you gleaned today, and where have you worked? Blessed be he that took notice of you. And Ruth told her mother-in-law where she [had] worked, and said, The name of the man with whom I worked today [is] Boaz.
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And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, Blessed is he of the Lord, because He has not failed in His mercy with the living and the dead. And Naomi said to her, This man is our relative, and is one of our relations.
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And Ruth said to her mother-in-law, Yes, he also said to me, Keep close to my young women, until the men shall have finished all my reaping.
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And Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, [It is] well, daughter, that you went out with his young women; thus they shall not meet you in another field.
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And Ruth joined herself to the young women of Boaz, to glean until they had finished the barley harvest and the wheat harvest.
Job 31:16-21
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But the helpless missed not whatever need they had, and I did not cause the eye of the widow to fail.
17
And if I also ate my morsel alone, and did not impart [of it] to the orphan;
18
(for I nourished them as a father from my youth and guided [them] from my mother's womb.)
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And if I too overlooked the naked as he was perishing, and did not clothe him;
20
and if the poor did not bless me, and their shoulders were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs;
21
if I lifted my hand against an orphan, trusting that my strength was far superior [to his]:
Psalm 41:1-3
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For the end, A Psalm of David. Blessed [is the man] who thinks on the poor and needy; the Lord shall deliver him in an evil day.
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May the Lord preserve him and keep him alive, and bless him on the earth, and not deliver him into the hands of his enemy.
3
May the Lord help him upon the bed of his pain; You have made all his bed in his sickness.
Psalm 112:9
He has dispersed abroad; he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn shall be exalted with honor.
Proverbs 11:24
There are [some] who scatter their own, and make it more, and there are some also who gather, yet have less.
Proverbs 11:25
Every sincere soul is blessed, but a passionate man is not graceful.
Isaiah 58:7
Break your bread to the hungry, and lead the unsheltered poor to your house; if you see one naked, clothe [him], and you shall not disregard the relations of your own seed.
Isaiah 58:8
Then shall your light break forth as the morning, and your health shall speedily spring forth; and your righteousness shall go before you, and the glory of God shall surround you.
Isaiah 58:10
and [if] you give bread to the hungry from your heart, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall your light spring up in darkness, and your darkness [shall be] as noon day;
Luke 11:41
Nevertheless give what is inside as alms; and see, all things are clean to you.
2 Corinthians 9:5-12
5
Therefore I thought it necessary to urge the brothers, that they should go before [me] to you, and should arrange in advance your generous gift, which you had previously promised, [that] this would be ready, thus as a blessing and not as grudgingly given.
6
But this I say: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
7
Let each [one give] just as he decides in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.
8
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that in everything always having all sufficiency, you may abound for every good work,
9
just as it is written: "He has dispersed, He has given to the poor; His righteousness endures forever."
10
Now may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness;
11
in everything being made rich to all generosity, which produces thanksgiving through us to God.
12
Because the ministry of this service not only is supplying the needs of the saints, but also is abounding through many thanksgivings to God,