Bible verse
In the fourth year all its fruit must be consecrated as a praise offering to the LORD.
Leviticus 19:24 · BSB
The verses around it, from Leviticus 19.
20 If a man lies carnally with a slave girl promised to another man but who has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment. But they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.
21 The man, however, must bring a ram to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting as his guilt offering to the LORD.
22 The priest shall make atonement on his behalf before the LORD with the ram of the guilt offering for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven the sin he has committed.
23 When you enter the land and plant any kind of tree for food, you shall regard the fruit as forbidden. For three years it will be forbidden to you and must not be eaten.
24 In the fourth year all its fruit must be consecrated as a praise offering to the LORD.
25 But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit; thus your harvest will be increased. I am the LORD your God.
26 You must not eat anything with blood still in it. You must not practice divination or sorcery.
27 You must not cut off the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.
28 You must not make any cuts in your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.
KJV
But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise the LORD [withal].
ASV
But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy, for giving praise unto Jehovah.
ERV
But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy, for giving praise unto the LORD.
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