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that it may be for the gleaners and that they may take it
with their hands ; that they also may be comforted, even
as they that did reap. l But 2
earth of his 3
(5f)
that which shall fall to
reaping, he 4 shall not turn him back to glean
it. And the sheaves that he shall forget, he shall not turn
him back to take them; he shall leave them behind for the
poor and the stranger, 5 that the blessing of God may come
upon
the G
threshing-floors
while he doeth His will. And he
shall pour 7 into his store-houses (^TTO^XV}) and fill s
them,
and the blessing of God shall be in them and they shall
not be bare ; for he hath obeyed the word of the Lord.
And pt) 10 the first-fruits (xTrapxy) of every thing that is in
his field, them shall he take in unto the house of the Lord
his God, ere he taste them, he and his household and his
children. 10
[
( 70). whether presbyjters (TT/J.) or ($) deacons 15. XII.
(iaKOVo$), first (-\-ftev) he shall observe the service (teirovpyla)
of the altar (6u<r.) according to (X&T<X) these ordinances (lvro>^)
and these precepts fiixMioofAa) and these laws. He shall do
the service (A/T.) of the holy place with his own body (ffuftz)-
He shall not despise (xar&Qpovlu) the ministry of the holy
place, albeit (xav) he have not need (%peiot)
to eat from the
church (ix.). Rather (<*AA#) he doth know this in his heart :
If indeed I eat not of the goods of the church (ex.), yet
(#AA#) all else that is mine is God s ; for (y/>) it is written,
The earth is the Lord s and the fulness thereof. n [ ]
a rich man. That [man was] exceeding kind (%py<rTO<;) and divided
with him his whole threshing-floor. Even so doth the Lord
require small things, that He may give great in their place.
For (ydfi) whoso useth (%pu) his possessions (v7rap%GVT<x) ac-
1 N. repeats this twice. 2 N. >.
5 N. both plur.
8 N. till He fill.
9 N. >
Ps. XXIV. i
i, Cor. X. 26.
6 N. his.
of
3 N. their.
* N. they.
7 B + for him(self).
God. B. [ ].