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A merciful provision of the law left the grainers of the fields and whatever crop was on them to be enjoyed by the poor (). So also gleanings of fields and fruit trees (; -21). Such regulations diminished, much the amount of poverty. In David's time only 500 or 600 in debt or distress joined him out of all Judaea (). Later the prophets constantly complain of the rich defrauding the poor (-15; ; ).