19:23 “‘When you enter the land and plant any fruit tree, 2 you must consider its fruit to be forbidden. 3 Three years it will be forbidden to you; 4 it must not be eaten.
1 tn Heb “and the buzzard to its kind” (see also vv. 16 and 19 for the same expression “of any kind”).
2 tn Heb “tree of food”; KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV “trees for food.”
3 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).
4 tn Heb “it shall be to you uncircumcised.”