19:23 “ ‘When you enter the land and plant any fruit tree,40 you must consider its fruit to be forbidden.41 Three years it will be forbidden to you;42 it must not be eaten.
tnHeb “you shall circumcise its fruit [as] its foreskin,” taking the fruit to be that which is to be removed and, therefore, forbidden. Since the fruit is uncircumcised it is forbidden (see J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 306, and esp. B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 131–32).