Leviticus 19:23
“Fruitbearing trees are works that bring forth virtues. We circumcise trees when we are suspicious of how weak our first efforts are and do not approve of the first fruits of our work. We call the fruit that grows unclean and do not take it as our food. When the first fruits of good works are praised, it is proper that…”
Source: Septuagint
23And whenever ye shall enter into the land which the Lord your God gives you, and shall plant any fruit tree, then shall ye purge away its uncleanness; its fruit shall be three years uncleansed to you, it shall not be eaten.
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21And he shall bring for his trespass to the Lord to the door of the tabernacle of witness, a ram for a trespass offering.
22And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, before the Lord, for the sin which he sinned; and the sin which he sinned shall be forgiven him.
— Leviticus 19:23 —
24And in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, a subject of praise to the Lord.
25And in the fifth year ye shall eat the fruit, its produce is an increase to you. I am the Lord your God.