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Leviticus 19:22-24
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22 and the priest is to make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before the Lord for his sin that he has committed,[a] and he will be forgiven[b] of his sin[c] that he has committed.

The Produce of Fruit Trees

23 “‘When you enter the land and plant any fruit tree,[d] you must consider its fruit to be forbidden.[e] Three years it will be forbidden to you;[f] it must not be eaten. 24 In the fourth year all its fruit will be holy, praise offerings[g] to the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 19:22 tn Heb “on his sin which he has sinned.”
  2. Leviticus 19:22 tn Heb “there shall be forgiveness to him” or “it shall be forgiven to him.”
  3. Leviticus 19:22 tn Heb “from his sin.”
  4. Leviticus 19:23 tn Heb “tree of food”; KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV “trees for food.”
  5. Leviticus 19:23 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).
  6. Leviticus 19:23 tn Heb “it shall be to you uncircumcised.”
  7. Leviticus 19:24 tn See B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 132, where the translation reads “set aside for jubilation”; a special celebration before the Lord.
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