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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.

22 With the ram of the guilt offering the priest is to make atonement for him before the Lord for the sin he has committed, and his sin will be forgiven.(A)

23 “‘When you enter the land and plant any kind of fruit tree, regard its fruit as forbidden.[a] For three years you are to consider it forbidden[b]; it must not be eaten. 24 In the fourth year all its fruit will be holy,(B) an offering of praise to the Lord.

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  1. Leviticus 19:23 Hebrew uncircumcised
  2. Leviticus 19:23 Hebrew uncircumcised

22 And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the Lord for his sin which he hath done: and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him.

23 And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of.

24 But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise the Lord withal.

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