Leviticus 19:23 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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. ”

• Leviticus 19:23 - Albert 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:...

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• Leviticus 19:23 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye (h) shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto yo...

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• Leviticus 19:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Holiness in Farm Life and between the Sexes. Hybrids are forbidden; a rule which, with its curious extensions, is found in Deuteronomy 22:9 f.; but contrast 2 Samuel 13:29 ; 1 Kings 10:25 ; Ez...

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• Leviticus 19:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  when ye shall come. The second of four prospective laws. See note on Leviticus 14:34 . Compare Leviticus 19:23 ; Leviticus 23:10 ; Leviticus 23:25 . uncircumcised: or, uncovenanted. Figure o...

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• Leviticus 19:23 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  23. And when ye shall come. There seems to me no question but that the circumcision of trees as well as of men appertains to the First Commandment, not only that the Jews might see a symbol...

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• Leviticus 19:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  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: i...

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• Leviticus 19:23 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  When ye shall come into the land, &c.— Though a reason for this law may, with great propriety, be drawn from nature itself, which dictates that the fruit of trees is not proper for use till the...

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• Leviticus 19:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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 yo...

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• Leviticus 19:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Various Laws, mainly of a Moral and Humane Character This chapter was very naturally regarded by Jewish authorities as an embodiment of the Decalogue. It will be observed that in general the prece...

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• Leviticus 19:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  And when ye shall come. — Rather, And when ye be come, as the Authorised Version renders the same phrase in Leviticus 14:34 . This is one of the four instances in Leviticus of a law being given...

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• Leviticus 19:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE LAW OF HOLINESS (CONCLUDED) Leviticus 19:1-37 WE have in this chapter a series of precepts and prohibitions which from internal evidence appear to have been selected by an inspired redactor...

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• Leviticus 19:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The more positive habits of separation are insisted on by the repetition of laws already given, with one reiterated emphasis, namely, the fact that the God of this people is Jehovah. There was, first...

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• Leviticus 19:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Besides the evident intention of this precept, in testifying thereby, that we hold all we have, as tenants of will, under the LORD; and therefore it is but justice and equity that we should pay the r...

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• Leviticus 19:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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...

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• Leviticus 19:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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: i...

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• Leviticus 19:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  As uncircumcised That is, as unclean, not to be eaten, but cast away, because the fruit then was less wholesome, and because hereby men were taught to bridle their appetites; a lesson of great use...

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• Leviticus 19:23 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  MANY LAWS GROUPED TOGETHER (vv. 1-37) We have seen at the beginning and end of chapter 18 God's announcement, “I am the Lord your God.” In chapter 19 the expression “I am the Lord” occurs 15 times...

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• Leviticus 19:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        19 Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen co...

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• Leviticus 19:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  As uncircumcised, i.e. as unclean, not to be eaten, but cast away, and counted abominable, as the foreskins are. Three years. This precept was serviceable, 1. To the trees themselves, which gre...

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• Leviticus 19:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Care For Trees ( Leviticus 19:23-25 ). Leviticus 19:23 “And when you shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then you shall count its fruit thereof as th...

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• Leviticus 19:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  Practical Piety: Religion in all Relationships SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 19:2 .—Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say: Nowhere else in the whole of Leviticus doe...

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• Leviticus 19:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The leading precepts of the law are here repeated to give them new force, and with many additions and illustrations, that they might be better understood. Most of these having already been explained,...

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• Leviticus 19:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

  In the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy. The law regarding fruit-trees The explanation of this peculiar regulation is to be found in a special application of the principle which...

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• Leviticus 19:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION From the prohibition of moral uncleanness exhibiting itself in the form of incest and licentiousness, the legislator proceeds to a series of laws and commandments against other kinds...

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• Leviticus 19:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 7:51 ; Exodus 22:29 ; Exodus 22:30 ; Exodus 6:12 ; Exodus 6:30 ; Jeremiah 6:10 ; Jeremiah 9:25 ; Jeremiah 9:26 ; Leviticus 12:3 ; Leviticus 14:34 ; Leviticus 22:27

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• Leviticus 19:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  As uncircumcised — That is, As unclean, not to be eaten but cast away. This precept was serviceable, To the trees themselves, which grew the better and faster, being early stript of those fruits, w...

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