16:18 “Then 1 he is to go out to the altar which is before the Lord and make atonement for it. He is to take 2 some of the blood of the bull and some of the blood of the goat, and put it all around on the horns of the altar.
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.
27:28 “‘Surely anything which a man permanently dedicates to the Lord 7 from all that belongs to him, whether from people, animals, or his landed property, must be neither sold nor redeemed; anything permanently dedicated is most holy to the Lord.
1 tn Heb “And.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) indicates the sequence of events here.
2 tn Heb “And he shall take.”
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.”
6 sn See the note on v. 11 above.
7 tn Heb “Surely, any permanently dedicated [thing] which a man shall permanently dedicate to the