Exodus 23:17
New International Version
“Three times a year all the men are to appear before the Sovereign LORD.

New Living Translation
At these three times each year, every man in Israel must appear before the Sovereign, the LORD.

English Standard Version
Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord GOD.

Berean Standard Bible
Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD.

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

New King James Version
“Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord GOD.

New American Standard Bible
Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord GOD.

NASB 1995
“Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord GOD.

NASB 1977
“Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord GOD.

Legacy Standard Bible
Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh.

Amplified Bible
Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord GOD.

Christian Standard Bible
Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD.”

American Standard Version
Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord Jehovah.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Three times in a year all your commemorations shall appear before LORD JEHOVAH your God.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Three times in the year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God.

Contemporary English Version
Your men must come to these three festivals each year to worship me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thrice a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"These are the three times each year that all your men must come into the presence of the Master, the LORD.

Good News Translation
Every year at these three festivals all your men must come to worship me, the Lord your God.

International Standard Version
Three times a year all your males shall appear in the presence of the Lord GOD."

JPS Tanakh 1917
Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.

Literal Standard Version
Three times in a year all your males appear before [the] face of the Lord YHWH.

Majority Standard Bible
Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD.

New American Bible
Three times a year shall all your men appear before the LORD God.

NET Bible
At three times in the year all your males will appear before the Lord GOD.

New Revised Standard Version
Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord GOD.

New Heart English Bible
Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord GOD.

Webster's Bible Translation
Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.

World English Bible
Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh.

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

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Three Yearly Feasts
16You are also to keep the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in the field. And keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field. 17Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD. 18You must not offer the blood of My sacrifices with anything leavened, nor may the fat of My feast remain until morning.…

Cross References
Exodus 23:14
Three times a year you are to celebrate a feast to Me.

Exodus 34:23
Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.

Deuteronomy 16:16
Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed.

Psalm 42:2
My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God's presence?

Psalm 122:4
where the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, as a testimony for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the LORD.

Isaiah 1:12
When you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you--this trampling of My courts?


Treasury of Scripture

Three items in the year all your males shall appear before the LORD God.

Exodus 34:23
Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.

Deuteronomy 12:5
But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:

Deuteronomy 16:16
Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:

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Exodus 23
1. Of slander, false witness, and partiality
4. Of charitableness
6. Of justice in judgment
8. Of taking bribes
9. Of oppressing a stranger
10. Of the year of rest
12. Of the Sabbath
13. Of idolatry
14. Of the three feasts
18. Of the blood and the fat of the sacrifice
20. An angel is promised, with a blessing, if they obey him














(17) Three times in the year.--The terms of this verse, as compared with Exodus 23:14, limit the observance of the three festivals to the males, but add the important requirement of personal attendance at a given place. By "all thy males" we must understand all of full age and not incapacitated by infirmity or illness.

Verse 17. - Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord God. This seems to moderns a very burthensome enactment. But we must remember that Palestine is not bigger than Wales, and that great gatherings had great attractions for many in the ancient world, when they were the only means by which information was spread, and almost the only occasions on which friends and relations who lived far apart could expect to see each other. The European Greeks had, in their Olympian and other games, similar great gatherings, which occurred once or twice in each year, and, though under no obligation to do so, attended them in enormous numbers. It may be doubted if the religious Hebrews felt the obligation of attendance to be a burthen. It was assuredly a matter of great importance, as tending to unity, and to the quickening of the national life, that they should be drawn so continually to one centre, and be so frequently united in one common worship. Most students of antiquity regard the Greek games as having exerted a strong unifying influence over the scattered members of the Grecian family. The Hebrew festivals, occurring so much more frequently, and required to be attended by all, must have had a similar, but much greater, effect of the same kind.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Three
שָׁלֹ֥שׁ (šā·lōš)
Number - feminine singular
Strong's 7969: Three, third, thrice

times
פְּעָמִ֖ים (pə·‘ā·mîm)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 6471: A beat, foot, anvil, occurrence

a year
בַּשָּׁנָ֑ה (baš·šā·nāh)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8141: A year

all
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

your males
זְכ֣וּרְךָ֔ (zə·ḵū·rə·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 2138: A male

are to appear
יֵרָאֶה֙ (yê·rā·’eh)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7200: To see

before
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

the Lord
הָאָדֹ֥ן ׀ (hā·’ā·ḏōn)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 136: The Lord

GOD.
יְהוָֽה׃ (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel


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