Leviticus 2:12

2:12 You can present them to the Lord as an offering of first fruit, ¹  but they must not go up to the altar for a soothing aroma.

Leviticus 19:25

19:25 Then in the fifth year you may eat its fruit to add its produce to your harvest. ²  I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 25:19

25:19 “‘The land will give its fruit and you may eat until you are satisfied, ³  and you may live securely in the land.

Leviticus 26:4

26:4 I will give you your rains in their time so that ⁴  the land will give its yield and the trees of the field will produce their fruit. ⁵ 

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 ⁶  will not produce their fruit.

Leviticus 27:30

Redemption of the Tithe

27:30 “‘Any tithe ⁷  of the land, from the grain of the land or from the fruit of the trees, belongs to the Lord; it is holy to the Lord.

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¹ sn The “first fruit” referred to here was given to the priests as a prebend for their service to the Lord, not offered on the altar (Num 18:12).

² 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).

³ tn Heb “eat to satisfaction”; KJV, ASV “ye shall eat your fill.”

⁴ tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.

⁵ tn Heb “the tree of the field will give its fruit.” As a collective singular this has been translated as plural.

⁶ 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.”

⁷ tn On the “tithe” system in Israel, see R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 2:1035-55 and esp. pp. 1041-42 on Lev 27:30-33.