Левит 19:23

Русский синодальный перевод

Когда придете в землю, которую Господь Бог даст вам , и посадите какое-либо плодовое дерево, то плоды его почитайте за необрезанные: три года должно почитать их за необрезанные, не должноесть их;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

And when: Leviticus 14:34

uncircumcised: Leviticus 12:3, Leviticus 22:27, Exodus 6:12, Exodus 6:30, Exodus 22:29, Exodus 22:30, Jeremiah 6:10, Jeremiah 9:25, Jeremiah 9:26, Acts 7:51

Reciprocal: Leviticus 23:14 - eat Deuteronomy 20:6 - eaten of it Nehemiah 10:35 - General Jeremiah 31:5 - eat Luke 13:7 - three

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when ye shall come into the land,.... The land of Canaan, whither they were now going:

and shall have planted all manner of trees for food; such that brought forth fruit that was eatable, as figs, grapes, olives, c. so that all such trees as did not bear fruit fit for man's food came not under the following law nor such as grew up of themselves and were not planted; nor such as were planted for any other use than for fruit; nor such as were planted by the Canaanites before the Israelites came into their land; for so say the Jews, what were planted for an hedge or for timber are free from the law; and add, at the time our fathers came into the land, what they found planted was free, what they planted, though they had not subdued it (the land), was bound:

then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised; not fit to be eaten, but to be taken off and cast away as the foreskin of the flesh:

three years it shall be as uncircumcised unto you, it shall not be eaten of; which was a provision partly for the benefit of fruit trees newly planted, whose fruit, when they first bear, gardeners frequently take off immediately, and do not suffer them to grow to any perfection, by which means a tree will grow stronger, and will bear more and better fruit another year; and partly for the health of man, which physical reason is given by Aben Ezra, who observes that the fruit that comes unto the third year there is no profit by it, but is hurtful; and chiefly because, as it is proper that the first fruits should be given to the Lord before any is eaten, so it is right that it should be given seasonably, and when it is brought to its perfection: three years were to be reckoned, as Jarchi and Ben Gersom say, from the time the tree was planted.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Fruit ... uncircumcised - i. e. unfit for presentation to Yahweh. In regard to its spiritual lesson, this law may be compared with the dedication of the first-born of beasts to Yahweh Exodus 13:12; Exodus 34:19. Its meaning in a moral point of view was plain, and tended to illustrate the spirit of the whole Law.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 19:23. Three years shall it be as uncircumcised — I see no great reason to seek for mystical meanings in this prohibition. The fruit of a young tree cannot be good; for not having arrived at a state of maturity, the juices cannot be sufficiently elaborated to produce fruit excellent in its kind. The Israelites are commanded not to eat of the fruit of a tree till the fifth year after its planting: in the three first years the fruit is unwholesome; in the fourth year the fruit is holy, it belongs to God, and should be consecrated to him, Leviticus 19:24; and in the fifth year and afterward the fruit may be employed for common use, Leviticus 19:25.