lI0 DEUTERON() M I E X X V. Forty ítripes. forgotten) Finally, among many other like cau- tions , they fay ; What is forgotten among the (heaves? All that he cannot ((retch oat hit band and tag it : [that is, if it be further than hee can reach from the place where he tfandeth.] Mai - many tom. 3. in Mattanetb gnanijim, chapter 5. And to it it fir the Amer , fo for the flandmg carne : if a man forget fome of the Jfaading come , and reape it net ,it ie for the poore. Maimony ibidem, chap- ter 1. feftion 6. for the firanger] in Greeke, the Profelyte, one joyned to the Church of Ifrael: to fetch thefe gifts peculiarly belonged, and to o- ther poore : fee the Annotations on Lev. 19. 1 o. And asforgetting often fignifieth a negleft, or paf- ling over ofa thing, fo in this cafe : and a man might purpofely paffe over a theafe and leave it as forgotten, for the poore, as Boaz did for the tlranger Ruth, Paying to his harvefl -men, Let fad fome of the (heaves for ber , and let it lie that fhe may gather it up, Ruth 2. 16. Or, if a man did it Hot purpofely, but unawares, yet was he to confider herein the providence ofGod, which caufed him to forget or palfe over a fheafe, for the poores fake: for as the Oftrich is Paid to forget her egges which the leaveth in the earth, becaufe God bath deprived her of rvi(dome , u a Job 3 9. 15, 17. fo in this cafe of the fheale, that the poore alto might have occafron to mind¢ the providence and love of God towards then), in this releefe. in all the wore] or, in ever 'write; the Greeke faith, in ad the workes. This promife of blefing is to encourage them in well doing , for which they fhould not lofe their reward : for that which is done unto poore Chritlians, is done untoChrift himfclfe, Matthew 2 5.40. and, He that it graci- out ante the pore, lendeth unto the L O RD ; and that which be bath iven will he pay him again, Prov. i 9. 17. So Boaz for his kindnelfe unto Rash, (whom afterwards he tooke to wife) had a fon of her (as a biding ofGod) Oáed,the grandfather of David the King, Ruth 4. 2e Verfe2o.beateff]that is,as the Greeke traufla- eth,gatbereft the olives. The fame is to be under- flood of all other trees of fruit which they ga- thered. not goe over the boughs] in Greeke, thou fhalt not return to gather the (olives) a(ter thee : in Chaldee , thou fhalt not take away after thee. It is the fame law for trees, which was before for corne, that what was forgotten or pail over at firth, fhould not after be gathered, but left for the poore. As that which is forgotten in the revenues of the field, and the like, fo that which it forgotten in all trees (is for the paver) Of Deuteronomie 24. zo. When thou heatefl thine aline tree, be. And the fame law is for other trees. So there are twogifts for the poore from the trees, that which is forgotten, and the earner, Leviticus 19. Mainsay in Mattanoth gttanijim, chapter 1. feftion 6, 7:, 21 Verfe St. not gather the frnglegrapes] or, notgleane, and properly the grapes which grow not in clu- fiers; as is noted on Leviticus 19. i o. which law is here repeated : and by faying,4tter thee, he fee - meth to teach the hirne for the vine, which hee taught for the corne and other trees,thatall for- gotten grapes fhould be for the poore. So the Hebrews obferve, that there are fouregifs_ r the poore in the vineyard; the grapes that are broken off an the fraglegrapes, and the corner, and tbat which isfòrgot- ten. Maim. in Mammoth pan. ch.i. £7. X7.2222212,Zsrl:2 CHAP. XXV. I Ged commanded, jufi judgement towards all. 2 To beat fetch as define it, but not with mee than forty pipes. 4 Not to *nonfat the ()ice when he trea- detb out the come. 5 Of raiftng *diem() a brother de- ceafed without ilia. 7 What was to be done unto the man that would not raif up feed unto bis brother. II The immodeß woman muß have her band an off 13 Againß unjufl weights and ,neafures. 17 The memory of Amalekfor crueltie to Ifrael, is to be blotted out from under heaven. I F there be a controverfie between inen, r and-they come neere unto ludgmcnt,atid they judge them ; then they (hall juflifie the jufl, and condemne for wicked the wic. kedt Andit !hall be,if the wicked be worthy to be beaten; that the Judge shall cattle him to lie downe , and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickednes, by a num- ber. Forty (pipes) he may (mite him; hee (hall not adde mee, fell if he adde to (mire him above thefewith many flripes,then thy brotherbe vile in thine eies. Thou (halt not moufell the Oxe,when he 4 treadeth out the corne. If brethren dwel together,and one of them 5 die, and have no fonne, the wife of the dead !hall not be so one without, to a man that is a firanger,her husbands brother (hall goe in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and do the duty of an husbands brother unto her. And it (hall be, that the f,rfl -born which fhe beareth,lhal ¡land up in the name of his bro- ther, which is dead , that his name be not blotted out of Ifrael.And if the man like not to take his brothers wife, then let his bro- thers wife go up to the gate,unto the Elders and fay , My husbands brother refufeth to raife upunto his brother a name in Ifrael; he is not willing to do the duty of an husbands brother unto mee. And the Elders of his ci- 8 tie (hall call him and (peak unto him : and if he (land and fay,! like not to take her; Then (hall his brothers wife come necreunto him in the vies of the Elders, and (he (hall pull off his fhooe from off his foot , and (hall (pit in his face and fhe (hall anfwer and fay; , So (hail it be done unto the man which will not build up his brothers houle. And his I o name 2 3 6 7 9
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