Exodus 23:17
Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord God.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 23:14Three times in the year you are to keep a feast to me.
Deuteronomy 12:5But let your hearts be turned to the place which will be marked out by the Lord your God, among your tribes, to put his name there;
Deuteronomy 31:11When all Israel has come before the Lord your God in the place named by him, let a reading be given of this law in the hearing of all Israel.
Psalms 84:7\84:6\Going through the valley of balsam-trees, they make it a place of springs; it is clothed with blessings by the early rain.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 23:11-20
Sacred Feasts. ( b. c. 1491.) 10 And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof: 11 But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard. 12 Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.… Read the whole commentary →