Deuteronomy 24:20 BSB

Deuteronomy 24:20

When you beat the olives from your trees, you must not go over the branches again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

When thou beatest thine olive-tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

KJV

When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

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Commentary

2 voices

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field--The grain, pulled up by the roots or cut down with a sickle, was laid in loose sheaves; the fruit of the olive was obtained by striking the branches with long poles; and the grape clusters, severed by a hook, were gathered in the hands of the vintager. Here is a beneficent provision for the poor.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

"Say not, 'What should the poor do with grapes and olives? It is enough for them to have bread and water;' for, since they have the same senses that the rich have, why should not they have so me little share of the delights of sense?" Boaz ordered handfuls of corn to be left on purpose for Ruth, and God blessed him. All that is left is not lost.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּ֤י	ki	if	H3588 →
תַחְבֹּט֙	tach.Bot	you will beat	H2251 →
זֵֽיתְךָ֔	zei.te.Kha	olive tree your	H2132 →
לֹ֥א	lo'	not	H3808 →
תְפָאֵ֖ר	te.fa.'Er	you will go over [the] boughs	H6286 →
אַחֲרֶ֑יךָ	'a.cha.Rei.kha	behind you	H310 →
לַגֵּ֛ר	la.Ger	to the sojourner	H1616 →
לַיָּת֥וֹם	lai.ya.Tom	to the fatherless one	H3490 →
וְלָאַלְמָנָ֖ה	ve.la.'al.ma.Nah	and to the widow	H490 →
יִהְיֶֽה׃ ס	yih.Yeh	it will belong	H1961 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk5

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Leviticus 19:10
You must not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.
leads to
- Isaiah 24:13
  So will it be on the earth and among the nations, like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest.
- Leviticus 25:6
  Whatever the land yields during the Sabbath year shall be food for you—for yourself, your manservant and maidservant, the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you,
- Isaiah 17:6
  Yet gleanings will remain, like an olive tree that has been beaten—two or three berries atop the tree, four or five on its fruitful branches,” declares the LORD, the God of Israel.
- Judges 8:2
  But Gideon answered them, “Now what have I accomplished compared to you? Are not the gleanings of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer?
- Jeremiah 49:9
  If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings? Were thieves to come in the night, would they not steal only what they wanted?