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Leviticus 19:23

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The Produce of Fruit Trees

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.

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Footnotes

  1. 40 Heb “tree of food”; , , , “trees for food.”
  2. 41 Heb “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 [], , and esp. B. A. Levine, Leviticus [], ).
  3. 42 Heb “it shall be to you uncircumcised.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“When you come into the land and plant any kind of tree for food, then you shall regard its fruit as forbidden. Three years it shall be forbidden to you; it must not be eaten.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“ ‘When you enter the land and plant any kind of fruit tree, regard its fruit as forbidden. For three years you are to consider it forbidden; it must not be eaten.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

“When you come into the land and plant any kind of tree for food, you are to consider the fruit forbidden. It will be forbidden to you for three years; it is not to be eaten.

NLTNew Living Translation

“When you enter the land and plant fruit trees, leave the fruit unharvested for the first three years and consider it forbidden. Do not eat it.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“ ‘And when you have come into the land and you plant any tree for food, you shall regard its fruit as unharvestable; for three years it shall be forbidden for you; it shall not be eaten.

KJV 1900King James Version

And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of.