One of the many and varied instructions found in Leviticus involves how farmers should harvest their fields, or more specifically, how farmers should not harvest their fields.

Farmers were to leave the edges of their fields unharvested. The crops then waited for the poor and the immigrant to glean them for their own use. This method of providing for the poor emerged as a legal right in various countries, based on this ancient biblical practice.

A simple act to care for overlooked and undervalued people. I often forget them, but the Lord remembers.

Leviticus 23:22 in week eight of reading the Bible cover to cover