Leviticus 19:23

Hebrew Bible

23 “‘When you enter the land and plant any fruit tree, you must consider its fruit to be forbidden. Three years it will be forbidden to you; it must not be eaten. 24 In the fourth year all its fruit will be holy, praise offerings to the Lord. 25 Then in the fifth year you may eat its fruit to add its produce to your harvest. I am the Lord your God.

Jubilees 7:1

Pseudepigrapha

1 During the seventh week, in its first year, in this jubilee [1317] Noah planted a vine at the mountain (whose name was Lubar, one of the mountains of Ararat) on which the ark had come to rest. It produced fruit in the fourth year [1320]. He guarded its fruit and picked it that year during the seventh month. 2 He made wine from it, put it in a container, and kept it until the fifth year [1321] — until the first day at the beginning of the first month. 3 He joyfully celebrated the day of this festival. He made a burnt offering for the Lord — one young bull, one ram, seven sheep each a year old, and one kid — to make atonement through it for himself and for his sons.

 Notes and References

"... Noah planted a vine and picked its fruit in the fourth year, which he guarded until the fifth year (Jubilees 7:1-3); it was only much later, and in apparent imitation of Noah’s act, that the Torah ordained similar treatment for the fruit of all trees (see Leviticus 19:23-25) ..."

Kugel, James L. A Walk through Jubilees: Studies in the Book of Jubilees and the World of Its Creation (p. 8) Brill, 2012

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