Deuteronomy 24:20 - Compare All Versions
Deuteronomy 24:20 NIV (New International Version)
When you beat the olives from your trees, do not go over the branches a second time. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow.
Deuteronomy 24:20 ESV (English Standard Version 2025)
When you beat your olive trees, you shall not go over them again. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.
Deuteronomy 24:20 NLT (New Living Translation)
When you beat the olives from your olive trees, don’t go over the boughs twice. Leave the remaining olives for the foreigners, orphans, and widows.
Deuteronomy 24:20 CSB (Christian Standard Bible)
When you knock down the fruit from your olive tree, do not go over the branches again. What remains will be for the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow.
Deuteronomy 24:20 KJV (King James Version)
When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
Deuteronomy 24:20 NKJV (New King James Version)
When you beat your olive trees, you shall not go over the boughs again; it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow.
Deuteronomy 24:19-22 MSG (The Message)
When you harvest your grain and forget a sheaf back in the field, don’t go back and get it; leave it for the foreigner, the orphan, and the widow so that GOD, your God, will bless you in all your work. When you shake the olives off your trees, don’t go back over the branches and strip them bare—what’s left is for the foreigner, the orphan, and the widow. And when you cut the grapes in your vineyard, don’t take every last grape—leave a few for the foreigner, the orphan, and the widow. Don’t ever forget that you were a slave in Egypt. I command you: Do what I’m telling you.
Deuteronomy 24:20 NASB2020 (New American Standard Bible - NASB)
When you beat the olives off your olive tree, you are not to search through the branches again; that shall be left for the stranger, the orphan, and for the widow.
Deuteronomy 24:20 AMP (Amplified Bible)
When you beat [the olives off of] your olive tree, do not search through the branches again; [whatever is left] shall be for the stranger, for the orphan, and for the widow.
Deuteronomy 24:20 NET (New English Translation)
When you beat your olive tree you must not repeat the procedure; the remaining olives belong to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow.