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  • Yes, the corners of the fields were left ungleaned for the poor and widows and the sojourners.

    TEXAS FAITH: Should the feds pursue illegal immigrants or the businesses that hire them? Or neither? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2010

  • I must, as a child, have had the forager's instinct very strongly developed, for I very early noted the amount of more or less appetizing food lying about ungleaned in what, in South Africa, we would call "the veld."

    Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer 1899

  • Whether one believes in the mystical aspects, traditional Judaism holds that Jews are responsible for acts of righteousness and kindness, as evidenced by the biblical injunctions to leave ungleaned the four corners of the fields, to show care and kindness to the widow, the orphan and the stranger, and to redeem the captive.

    unknown title 2009

  • Whether one believes in the mystical aspects, traditional Judaism holds that Jews are responsible for acts of righteousness and kindness, as evidenced by the biblical injunctions to leave ungleaned the four corners of the fields, to show care and kindness to the widow, the orphan and the stranger, and to redeem the captive.

    Israelated - English Israel blogs 2009

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