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	Nave's—Reaping

Reaping

Is the cutting of the corn in harvest—Job 24:6; Le 23:10

The sickle used for—De 16:9; Mr 4:29

Both men and women engaged in—Ru 2:8,9

THE JEWS NOT TO REAP

• The corners of their fields
• —Le 19:9; 23:22
• During the Sabbatical year
• —Le 25:5
• During the year of jubilee
• —Le 25:11
• The fields of others
• —De 23:25

Mode of gathering the corn for, alluded to—Ps 129:7; Isa 17:5

Corn after, was bound up into sheaves—Ge 37:7; Ps 129:7

PERSONS ENGAGED IN

• Under the guidance of a steward
• —Ru 2:5,6
• Visited by the master
• —Ru 2:4; 2Ki 4:18
• Fed by the master who himself presided at their meals
• —Ru 2:14
• Received wages
• —Joh 4:36; Jas 5:4

A time of great rejoicing—Ps 126:5,6

The Jews often hindered from, on account of their sins—Mic 6:15

Often unprofitable on account of sin—Jer 12:13

ILLUSTRATIVE OF

• Receiving the reward of wickedness
• —Job 4:8; Pr 22:8; Ho 8:7; Ga 6:8
• Receiving the reward of righteousness
• —Ho 10:12; Ga 6:8,9
• Ministers receiving temporal provision for spiritual
• labours—1Co 9:11
• Gathering in souls to God
• —Joh 4:38
• The judgments of God on the antichristian world
• —Re 14:14-16
• The final judgment
• —Mt 13:30,39-43