²³ “When you come into the land and plant any kind of tree for food, then you shall regard its fruit as forbidden.^[a] Three years it shall be forbidden to you; it must not be eaten. ²⁴ And in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, an offering of praise to the Lord. ²⁵ But in the fifth year you may eat of its fruit, to increase its yield for you: I am the Lord your God.

^3 (A)“If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, ⁴ then ^(B)I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.