19:23 “‘When you enter the land and plant any fruit tree, 3 you must consider its fruit to be forbidden. 4 Three years it will be forbidden to you; 5 it must not be eaten.
1 tn Heb “or then,” although the LXX has “then” and the Syriac “and then.”
2 tn Heb “and then they make up for.” On the verb “make up for” see the note on v. 34 above.
3 tn Heb “tree of food”; KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV “trees for food.”
4 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).
5 tn Heb “it shall be to you uncircumcised.”