HORTICULTURE

Passages on this topic · 5

• Leviticus 19:23

  “‘When you come into the land, and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden. Three years they shall be forbidden to you. It shall not be eaten.

• Leviticus 19:24

  But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, for giving praise to Yahweh.

• Leviticus 19:25

  In the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, that it may yield its increase to you. I am Yahweh your God.

• Deuteronomy 20:19

  When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them; for you may eat of them. You shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged by you?

• Deuteronomy 20:20

  Only the trees that you know are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down. You shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls.