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Leviticus 19:23
New English Translation

The Produce of Fruit Trees

23 “‘When you enter the land and plant any fruit tree,[a] you must consider its fruit to be forbidden.[b] Three years it will be forbidden to you;[c] it must not be eaten.

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  1. Leviticus 19:23 tn Heb “tree of food”; KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV “trees for food.”
  2. Leviticus 19:23 tn 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 [WBC], 306, and esp. B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 131-32).
  3. Leviticus 19:23 tn Heb “it shall be to you uncircumcised.”
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