Lev 19:23 | NET2full | STEP | “‘ When you enter the land and plant any fruit tree , you must consider its fruit to be forbidden . Three years it will be forbidden to you; it must not be eaten .

Leviticus 19:23

The Produce of Fruit Trees

23 “‘When you enter the land and plant any fruit tree, ^{▼▼tn Heb “tree of food”; KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV “trees for food.”} you must consider its fruit to be forbidden. ^{▼▼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).} Three years it will be forbidden to you; ^{▼▼tn Heb “it shall be to you uncircumcised.”} it must not be eaten.