Nor shall you glean your vineyard, nor shall you gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the needy and for the stranger. I am the Lord your God.

‘When you enter the land and plant all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden. Three years it shall be forbidden to you; it shall not be eaten.

But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, an offering of praise to the Lord.

In the fifth year you are to eat of its fruit, that its yield may increase for you; I am the Lord your God.

then I shall give you rains in their season, so that the land will yield its produce and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.

Your strength will be spent uselessly, for your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit.

‘Thus all the tithe of the land, of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord’s; it is holy to the Lord.