Strip your vineyard bare: this is an additional prohibition which requires the same procedure regarding vineyards as for the grain fields in the previous verse. The person who is gathering must not be so selfish as to take absolutely every grape.

Leave them: the pronoun here probably refers to the grain in verse 9 as well as to the grapes in this verse. In many languages it will be good to make this explicit, since this provides the reason behind both prohibitions. Some may wish to say “leave some grain and some grapes….”

Poor: in some languages it may be necessary to use a longer phrase—something like “the people who lack,” or “those who have nothing,” or “people with very little to eat.”

Sojourner: or “those people who live among you but are not Israelites.” See 17.15.

I am the LORD your God: see verse 3 and 11.44.

Quoted with permission from Péter-Contesse, René and Ellington, John. A Handbook on Leviticus. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 1990. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .