Exodus 23:17

Three times a year, all your males shall appear before the Lord your God.

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In The King James Version

Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.

In Context

16for it is the solemnity of the harvest of the first-fruits of your work, of whatever you have sown in the field. Likewise, it is a solemnity at the end of the season, when you will have gathered in all your crops from the field.

18You shall not immolate the blood of my victim over leaven, nor shall the fat of my solemnity remain until morning.

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Cross References

Exodus 23:14Three times in each year, you shall celebrate feasts to me.

Deuteronomy 12:5Instead, you shall approach the place which the Lord your God will choose among all your tribes, so that he may set his name there, and may dwell in that place.

Deuteronomy 31:11when all of Israel has convened in order to appear in the sight of the Lord your God, in the place which the Lord will choose, you shall read the words of this law before all of Israel, in their hearing.

Psalms 84:7O God, you will turn back and revive us. And your people will rejoice in you.

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 →

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