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Leviticus 23:22

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"'When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap into the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest: you shall leave them for the poor, and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.'"

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Egypt was the land from which the Lord delivered Israel, forming the covenant people now settled in Canaan. Leviticus 23:22’s provision for the poor and resident alien reflects the social justice required of a people who remembered their own former vulnerability in Egypt.

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Leviticus 23:22 mentions Egypt.

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