Quotes about Gleaning
When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.
- Leviticus 19:9
And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go into the fields and glean heads of grain after someone in whose sight I may find favor.” “Go ahead, my daughter,” Naomi replied.
- Ruth 2:2
She has said, ‘Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the harvesters.’ So she came out and has continued from morning until now, except that she rested a short time in the shelter.”
- Ruth 2:7
So Ruth gathered grain in the field until evening. And when she beat out what she had gleaned, it was about an ephah of barley.
- Ruth 2:17
Then Ruth the Moabitess said, “He also told me, ‘Stay with my young men until they have finished gathering all my harvest.’”
- Ruth 2:21
So Ruth stayed close to the servant girls of Boaz to glean grain until the barley and wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.
- Ruth 2:23
as the reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests the ears with his arm, as one gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.
- Isaiah 17:5
So will it be on the earth and among the nations, like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest.
- Isaiah 24:13
If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings? Were thieves to come in the night, would they not steal only what they wanted?
- Jeremiah 49:9
Woe is me! For I am like one gathering summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that I crave.
- Micah 7:1