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# glean, gleaning
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## Definition
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To glean is to go through a field or orchard to pick up whatever grain or fruit the harvesters have left behind.
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* God told the Israelites to let the widows, poor people, and foreigners glean the leftover grain in order to provide food for themselves on a daily basis.
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* Sometimes the owner of the field would allow the gleaners to go right behind the harvesters to glean, which enabled them to glean much more of the grain.
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* A clear example of how this worked is in the story of Ruth, who was generously allowed to glean among the harvesters in the fields of her dead husband's relative Boaz.
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* Other ways to translate "glean" can be, "pick up" or "gather" or "collect",
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