Exodus 23:17

'Three times in a year do all thy males appear before the face of the Lord Jehovah.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16and the Feast of Harvest, the first fruits of thy works which thou sowest in the field; and the Feast of the In-Gathering, in the outgoing of the year, in thy gathering thy works out of the field.

18'Thou dost not sacrifice on a fermented thing the blood of My sacrifice, and the fat of My festival doth not remain till morning;

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Cross References

Exodus 23:14'Three times thou dost keep a feast to Me in a year;

Deuteronomy 12:5but unto the place which Jehovah your God doth choose out of all your tribes to put His name there, to His tabernacle ye seek, and thou hast entered thither,

Deuteronomy 31:11in the coming in of all Israel to see the face of Jehovah in the place which He chooseth, thou dost proclaim this law before all Israel, in their ears.

Psalms 84:7They go from strength unto strength, He appeareth unto God in Zion.

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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