What did Leviticus 19:9-10 command the Israelites to leave after the harvest?
Leviticus 19:9-10 instructed Israel, after taking the main harvest, not to reap completely the corners of their fields or gather the gleanings. They were to leave the corners and gleanings for the poor, and they were not to glean the vineyard.
Les teaches that this instruction came after the Israelites had harvested the main part of the field. Under Leviticus 19:9-10, they were not to wholly or completely reap the corners of the field, nor gather the gleanings of the harvest, nor glean the vineyard. In the Jewish harvest pattern, after the early ripening heads and the main harvest, they had to leave the corners and their gleanings for the poor. Les connects this harvest system to Paul's teaching in I Corinthians 15, where Christ risen is the first fruits of those who have died, using Israel's harvest as an illustration of coming resurrections.
And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.
And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.
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What did Leviticus 19:9 command concerning the corners of the field and the gleanings of the harvest?
In Leviticus 19:9, God instructed the Israelites that they were not to wholly or completely reap the corners of their field, nor gather the gleanings of their harvest.
Why were farmers told not to reap the corners or gather the gleanings and grapes?
The reason a farmer was not allowed to completely reap the corners of his field or gather the gleanings and every grape is that those were to be left for the poor—that was the physical need behind the command.