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If you were to eat it on the third day, it would be an abomination. It would not be accepted. Therefore, everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he shall have profaned something holy to the Lord. That person shall be cut off from among his people.

[a]“When you gather the harvest of your land, do not reap the corners of your field nor gather the gleanings of your harvest.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 19:9 Gleaning was an Israelite custom that provided for the poor and the strangers (see Ru 2).

If any of it is eaten on the third day, it is impure and will not be accepted.(A) Whoever eats it will be held responsible(B) because they have desecrated what is holy(C) to the Lord; they must be cut off from their people.(D)

“‘When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges(E) of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.(F)

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