Leviticus 23:22 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

When ye reap the harvest of your land— See what has been advanced respecting this benevolent injunction, on chap. Leviticus 19:9-10. The reader cannot but observe with what great propriety it is repeated here, where the people, called to thankfulness to their God for the blessings of harvest, could scarcely fail to comply with so just and merciful a precept.

Note; They who will honour God with sacrifice, must also have pity on the needy; and God will accept with greater delight the feeding his hungry saints, than the feeding the fire of his altar with the fat of bullocks or rams.

Leviticus 23:22

22 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.