Leviticus 19:25

19:25 Then in the fifth year you may eat its fruit to add its produce to your harvest. 1  I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 25:6

25:6 You may have the Sabbath produce 2  of the land to eat – you, your male servant, your female servant, your hired worker, the resident foreigner who stays with you, 3 

Leviticus 25:21

25:21 I will command my blessing for you in the sixth year so that it may yield 4  the produce 5  for three years,

Leviticus 26:4

26:4 I will give you your rains in their time so that 6  the land will give its yield and the trees of the field will produce their fruit. 7 

Leviticus 26:20

26:20 Your strength will be used up in vain, your land will not give its yield, and the trees of the land 8  will not produce their fruit.

1 tn Heb “to add to you its produce.” The rendering here assumes that the point of this clause is simply that finally being allowed to eat the fruit in the fifth year adds the fruit of the tree to their harvest. Some take the verb to be from אָסַף (’asaf, “to gather”) rather than יָסַף (yasaf, “to add; to increase”), rendering the verse, “to gather to you the produce” (E. S. Gerstenberger, Leviticus [OTL], 260, and see the versions referenced in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 306). Others take it to mean that by following the regulations given previously they will honor the Lord so that the Lord will cause the trees to increase the amount of fruit they would normally produce (Hartley, 303, 306; cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

2 tn The word “produce” is not in the Hebrew text but is implied; cf. NASB “the sabbath products.”

3 tn A “resident who stays” would be a foreign person who was probably residing as another kind of laborer in the household of a landowner (B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 170-71). See v. 35 below.

4 tn Heb “and it [i.e., the land] shall make the produce.” The Hebrew term וְעָשָׂת (vÿ’asat, “and it shall make”) is probably an older third feminine singular form of the verb (GKC 210 §75.m). Smr has the normal form.

5 tn Smr and LXX have “its produce” (cf. 25:3, 7, etc.) rather than “the produce.”

6 tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.

7 tn Heb “the tree of the field will give its fruit.” As a collective singular this has been translated as plural.

8 tn Heb “the tree of the land will not give its fruit.” The collective singular has been translated as a plural. Tg. Onq., some medieval Hebrew mss, Smr, LXX, and Tg. Ps.-J. have “the field” as in v. 4, rather than “the land.”