What is gleaning or gathering in the scriptures?

"She  went,  and  came,  and  gleaned  in  the  field  after the  reapers." Ruth 2:3

The  Israelites  were  commanded  by  their  law  to  be  merciful  to  the  poor. The  corners  of  the  fields  were  not  to  be  reaped. ''When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God. Leviticus 19:9-10 and ''When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.'' Deuteronomy 24:19 

This  grain  in  the  corners, and these odd sheaves in the field, were for the poor. The  story  of  Ruth  is  a  most  beautiful  illustration  of  this  law.  Reference  is  supposed  to  be  made  to  this  custom in  ''The poor must go about naked, without any clothing. They harvest food for others while they themselves are starving. They press out olive oil without being allowed to taste it, and they tread in the winepress as they suffer from thirst.'' Job 24:11-12

Measuring the grain...

Description of Illustration: a vintage illustration two men from the Bible dividing and measuring wheat, women carry grain in baskets on their heads towards camels in the background

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Hesed

Description of Illustration: wheat of Minnith, text "Hesed" 

Hesed or Chesed (Hebrew: חֶסֶד‎, also Romanized ḥesed) is a Hebrew word that means kindness or love between people, specifically of the devotional piety of people towards God as well as of love or mercy of God towards humanity. It is frequently used in Psalms in the latter sense, where it is traditionally translated "loving kindness" in English translations.

In Jewish theology it is likewise used of God's love for the Children of Israel, and in Jewish ethics it is used for love or charity between people. Chesed in this latter sense of "charity" is considered a virtue on its own, and also for its contribution to tikkun olam (repairing the world). It is also considered the foundation of many religious commandments practiced by traditional Jews, especially interpersonal commandments.

Chesed is also one of the ten Sephirot on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. It is given the association of kindness and love, and is the first of the emotive attributes of the sephirot.

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The Gleaner

Description of Illustration: a vintage illustration of Ruth carrying stalks of wheat she has gleaned in the fields of Boaz, sepia illustration, transparent background

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Ruth Gleans From Boaz' Field

Description of Bible Illustration: grain, farm, figure of Ruth, vintage children's illustration

•  Boaz Befriends Ruth from The Superbook

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"Thy People Shall Be My People"

 

Description of the illustration:  text, "Thy People Shall Be My People", Ruth and Naomi, stained glass design, staff, journey, clouds, donkey, path home, widows, mother-in-law, daughter-in-law

 

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Wedding Scriptures From Ruth, 1rst John and Matthew

"And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave you, or to return from following after you: for where you go,
 I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge: your people shall be my people, and your God my God."
 Ruth 1:16 (King James 2000)

Description of Illustration: Very Vintage cottage with yellow hollyhocks, blue bells and white picket fence, the cottage is stucco with a red brick chimney, scriptures are from the Gospel of Matthew, the Book of Ruth and the Book of 1 John, these scripture are often read during traditional Christian marriages 
 

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"See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God;
 and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him." 1 John 3:1 (ESV)

"...and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife,
 and the two shall become one flesh’?" Matthew 19:5 (ESV)