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Jubilees describes Noah waiting until the fifth year to eat the fruit from a vine he planted, showing an awareness of Leviticus 19. This follows a pattern in Jubilees where the patriarchs follow the Torah before it was given to Moses.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
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.
Date: 750–400 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
Jubilees 7:1
Pseudepigrapha, Hebrew Bible Expansions
1 And in the seventh week in its first year [1317], in this jubilee, Noah planted vines on the mountain on which the ark had rested, named Lubar, one of the Ararat Mountains, and they produced fruit in the fourth year, [1320] and he guarded their fruit, and gathered it in this year in the seventh month. 2 And he made wine from it and put it into a container, and kept it until the fifth year, [1321] until the first day, on the new moon of the first month. 3 And he celebrated with joy the day of this feast, and he made a burnt sacrifice to the Lord, one young ox and one ram, and seven sheep, each a year old, and a young goat, so that he might make atonement by it for himself and his sons.
Date: 170–125 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
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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) ..."
James L. Kugel, A Walk through Jubilees: Studies in the Book of Jubilees and the World of Its Creation (Leiden: Brill, 2012), 8.
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