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426 B
Markdown
17 lines
426 B
Markdown
# in the third year
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Every three years the people of Israel gave a tenth of the harvest to the poor.
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# fatherless
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These are children whose parents have both died and do not have relatives to care for them.
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# widow
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This means a woman whose husband has died and has no children to care for her now that she is old.
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# eat within your city gates and be filled
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"so that those within your towns may have enough food to eat"
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