19:23 “‘When you enter the land and plant any fruit tree, 5 you must consider its fruit to be forbidden. 6 Three years it will be forbidden to you; 7 it must not be eaten.
1 tn Heb “this,” but as a collective plural (see the following context).
2 sn Regarding “clean” versus “unclean,” see the note on Lev 10:10.
3 tn Heb “because a chewer of the cud it is” (see also vv. 5 and 6).
4 tn Heb “and hoof there is not dividing” (see also vv. 5 and 6).
5 tn Heb “tree of food”; KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV “trees for food.”
6 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).
7 tn Heb “it shall be to you uncircumcised.”