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GLEANING.—For the humanitarian provisions of the Pentateuchal codes, by which the gleanings of the cornfield, vineyard, and oliveyard were the perquisites of the poor, the fatherless, the widow, and the gçr outlander, see Lev_19:9 f., Lev_23:22 (both H [Note: Law of Holiness.] ), Deu_24:19-21; cf. Agriculture, § 3; Poverty.
A. R. S. Kennedy.