Leviticus 19:23

The Produce of Fruit Trees

19:23 “‘When you enter the land and plant any fruit tree, ¹  you must consider its fruit to be forbidden. ²  Three years it will be forbidden to you; ³  it must not be eaten.

Leviticus 25:27

25:27 he is to calculate the value of the years it was sold, ⁴  refund the balance ⁵  to the man to whom he had sold it, and return to his property.

Leviticus 27:6

27:6 If the person is one month old up to five years old, the conversion value of the male is five shekels of silver, ⁶  and for the female the conversion value is three shekels of silver.

Leviticus 27:18

27:18 but if ⁷  he consecrates his field after the jubilee, the priest will calculate the price ⁸  for him according to the years that are left until the next jubilee year, and it will be deducted from the conversion value.

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¹ tn Heb “tree of food”; KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV “trees for food.”

² 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 tn Heb “it shall be to you uncircumcised.”

⁴ tn Heb “and he shall calculate its years of sale.”

⁵ tn Heb “and return the excess.”

⁶ tn Heb “five shekels silver.”

⁷ tn Heb “And if.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have adversative force here.

⁸ tn Heb “the silver.”