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23 Also when you enter the land and plant any kind of fruit tree, you must cut off its budding fruit as if it were a foreskin. For three years you shall regard the tree and its fruit as uncircumcised. Its fruit shall not be eaten.[a] 24 In the fourth year, all its fruit shall be set aside as a holy offering of praise to the Lord. 25 You may eat its fruit in the fifth year, so that its yield may be increased for you. I am the Lord your God.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 19:23 The text speaks of a sort of “circumcision” of trees. Many translations simply ignore the literal meaning of the text here.