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Leviticus 19:21-23
New English Translation

21 He must bring his guilt offering to the Lord at the entrance of the Meeting Tent, a guilt offering ram,[a] 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,[b] and he will be forgiven[c] of his sin[d] that he has committed.

The Produce of Fruit Trees

23 “‘When you enter the land and plant any fruit tree,[e] you must consider its fruit to be forbidden.[f] Three years it will be forbidden to you;[g] it must not be eaten.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 19:21 sn On the guilt offering see the note on Lev 5:15 above.
  2. Leviticus 19:22 tn Heb “on his sin which he has sinned.”
  3. Leviticus 19:22 tn Heb “there shall be forgiveness to him” or “it shall be forgiven to him.”
  4. Leviticus 19:22 tn Heb “from his sin.”
  5. Leviticus 19:23 tn Heb “tree of food”; KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV “trees for food.”
  6. 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).
  7. Leviticus 19:23 tn Heb “it shall be to you uncircumcised.”
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