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On the firstfruits holy day, work tools rest while the congregation gathers, and harvesters leave a broad standing edge of grain plus fallen stalks for poor and sojourning families to glean. Worship and generosity occupy one continuous landscape. No laborious work, begging, guarded field, total abandonment, blood, or visible deity.
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Leviticus 23:21-22

Holy convocation and open field edges

The Appointed Times · Leviticus 23

Story guide: On the firstfruits holy day, work tools rest while the congregation gathers, and harvesters leave a broad standing edge of grain plus fallen stalks for poor and sojourning families to glean. Worship and generosity occupy one continuous landscape. No laborious work, begging, guarded field, total abandonment, blood, or visible deity.

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21And on that very day you shall proclaim a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work. It is a permanent statute throughout your dwellings for your generations.

22And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not completely reap the edge of your field, and you shall not gather the gleanings of your harvest; you shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner. I am Yahweh your God.

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