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Markdown
23 lines
772 B
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## in the third year ##
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The Israelites gave a tenth of their harvest to Yahweh every year. Every 3 years they gave a tenth of the harvest to the poor.
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## fatherless ##
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children whose parents have both died and do not have relatives to care for them
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## widow ##
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a woman whose husband has died and has no children to care for her in her old age
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## eat within your city gates and be filled ##
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AT: "so that those within your towns may have enough food to eat" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]])
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## I have brought out of ##
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This is the start of another statement that the Israelite was supposed to say. It will continue to the end of 26:15.
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## neither have I forgotten them ##
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This means that he has not neglected to obey any of God's commandments.
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