Exodus 23:14

Easy-to-Read Version

"You will have three special festivals each year. You must come to my special place to worship me during these festivals.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
"You shall observe a feast to me three times a year.

King James Version
Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.

Lexham English Bible
"‘Three times in the year you will hold a festival for me.

New Century Version
"Three times each year you must hold a feast to honor me.

New English Translation
"Three times in the year you must make a pilgrim feast to me.

Amplified Bible
"Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast [dedicated] to Me.

New American Standard Bible
"Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Three times thou shalt keepe a feast vnto me in the yeere.

Legacy Standard Bible
"Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me.

Contemporary English Version
The Lord said: Celebrate three festivals each year in my honor.

Complete Jewish Bible
"Three times a year, you are to observe a festival for me.

Darby Translation
Thrice in the year thou shalt celebrate a feast to me.

English Standard Version
"Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me.

George Lamsa Translation
Three times in the year you shall celebrate a festival for me.

Good News Translation
"Celebrate three festivals a year to honor me.

Christian Standard Bible®
“Celebrate a festival in my honor three times a year.

Literal Translation
Three times in the year you shall make a feast to Me.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thre tymes in the yeare

American Standard Version
Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.

Bible in Basic English
Three times in the year you are to keep a feast to me.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Three feastes thou shalt holde vnto me in a yere.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto Me in the year.

King James Version (1611)
Three times thou shalt keepe a feast vnto me in the yeere.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Keep ye a feast to me three times in the year.

English Revised Version
Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.

Berean Standard Bible
Three times a year you are to celebrate a feast to Me.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
In thre tymes bi alle yeeris ye schulen halewe feestis to me.

Young's Literal Translation
`Three times thou dost keep a feast to Me in a year;

Update Bible Version
Three times you shall keep a feast to me in the year.

Webster's Bible Translation
Three times thou shalt keep a feast to me in the year.

World English Bible
"You shall observe a feast to me three times a year.

New King James Version
Exodus 34:18-26; Deuteronomy 16:1-17">[xr] "Three times you shall keep a feast to Me in the year:

New Living Translation
"Each year you must celebrate three festivals in my honor.

New Life Bible
"Three times a year you will have a special supper to honor Me.

New Revised Standard
Three times in the year you shall hold a festival for me.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Three times, shalt thou keep festival to me, in the year.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Three times every year you shall celebrate feasts to me.

Revised Standard Version
"Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me.

THE MESSAGE
"Three times a year you are to hold a festival for me.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me.

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ "Plant seeds, harvest your crops, and work the ground for six years. ¹¹ But the seventh year must be a special time of rest for the land. Don't plant anything in your fields. If any crops grow there, allow the poor to have it. And allow the wild animals to eat the food that is left. You should do the same with your vineyards and with your fields of olive trees. ¹² "Work for six days, but on the seventh day, rest! This will allow your slaves and other workers a time to rest and relax. And your bulls and donkeys will also have a time of rest. ¹³ "Be sure that you obey all these laws. Don't worship false gods. You should not even speak their names! ¹⁴ "You will have three special festivals each year. You must come to my special place to worship me during these festivals. ¹⁵ The first festival is the Festival of Unleavened Bread. This is as I commanded you. During this time you will eat bread that is made without yeast. This will continue for seven days. You will do this during the month of Abib, because this is the time when you came out of Egypt. Everyone must bring a sacrifice to me at that time. ¹⁶ "The second festival will be the Festival of Harvest. This festival will be during the early summer when you begin harvesting the first crops that you planted in your fields. "The third festival will be the Festival of Shelters. This will be in the fall, when you finish gathering the rest of the crops from your fields. ¹⁷ "So three times each year all the men will come to the special place to be with the Lord God . ¹⁸ "When you kill an animal and offer its blood as a sacrifice, you must not include anything that has yeast in it. And when you burn the fat from my sacrifice, don't let any of it remain until morning. ¹⁹ "When you gather your crops at harvest time, you should bring the first of everything you harvest to the house of the Lord your God. "You must not eat the meat from a young goat that is boiled in its mother's milk."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 34:22, Leviticus 23:5, Leviticus 23:16, Leviticus 23:34, Deuteronomy 16:16

Reciprocal: Exodus 34:23 - Thrice Leviticus 23:2 - the feasts Leviticus 23:4 - General Judges 21:19 - a feast 1 Samuel 1:3 - yearly 1 Samuel 2:19 - from year to year 1 Kings 9:25 - three times 2 Chronicles 8:13 - three times Ezra 3:1 - the seventh Ezekiel 46:9 - come before Luke 2:41 - went John 5:1 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Three times thou shall keep a feast unto me in the year. The feast of the passover, on the fourteenth of the month Nisan or March; and the feast of weeks or pentecost fifty days after that; and the feast of tabernacles on the fifteenth day of Tisri or September.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This is the first mention of the three great Yearly Festivals. The feast of Unleavened bread, in its connection with the Paschal Lamb, is spoken of in Exodus 12:0; Exodus 13:0: but the two others are here first named. The whole three are spoken of as if they were familiarly known to the people. The points that are especially enjoined are that every male Israelite should attend them at the sanctuary (compare Exodus 34:23), and that he should take with him an offering for Yahweh, presenting himself before his King with his tribute in his hand. That this condition belonged to all the feasts, though it is here stated only in regard to the Passover, cannot be doubted. See Deuteronomy 16:16.

Exodus 23:15-16

On the Feast of Unleavened Bread, or the Passover, see Exodus 12:1-20, Exodus 12:43-50; Exodus 13:3-16; Exodus 34:18-20; Leviticus 23:4-14. On the Feast of the Firstfruits of Harvest, called also the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Pentecost, see Exodus 34:22; Leviticus 23:15-21. On the Feast of Ingathering, called also the Feast of Tabernacles, see Leviticus 23:34-36, Leviticus 23:39-43.

Exodus 23:16

In the end of the year - Compare Exodus 34:22. The year here spoken of must have been the civil or agrarian year, which began after harvest, when the ground was prepared for sowing. Compare Leviticus 23:39; Deuteronomy 16:13-15. The sacred year began in spring, with the month Abib, or Nisan. See Exodus 12:2 note, and Leviticus 25:9.

When thou hast gathered - Rather, when thou gatherest in.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 23:14. Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. — The three feasts here referred to were,

1. The feast of the PASSOVER;

2. The feast of PENTECOST;

3. The feast of TABERNACLES.

1. The feast of the Passover was celebrated to keep in remembrance the wonderful deliverance of the Hebrews from Egypt.

2. The feast of Pentecost, called also the feast of harvest and the feast of weeks, Exodus 34:22, was celebrated fifty days after the Passover to commemorate the giving of the law on Mount Sinai, which took place fifty days after, and hence called by the Greeks Pentecost.

3. The feast of Tabernacles, called also the feast of the ingathering, was celebrated about the 15th of the month Tisri to commemorate the Israelites' dwelling in tents for forty years, during their stay in the wilderness. Leviticus 23:34.

"God, out of his great wisdom," says Calmet, "appointed several festivals among the Jews for many reasons:

1. To perpetuate the memory of those great events, and the wonders he had wrought for the people; for example, the Sabbath brought to remembrance the creation of the world; the Passover, the departure out of Egypt; the Pentecost, the giving of the law; the feast of Tabernacles, the sojourning of their fathers in the wilderness, c.

2. To keep them faithful to their religion by appropriate ceremonies, and the splendour of Divine service.

3. To procure them lawful pleasures, and necessary rest.

4. To give them instruction for in their religious assemblies the law of God was always read and explained.

5. To consolidate their social union, by renewing the acquaintance of their tribes and families; for on these occasions they come together from different parts of the land to the holy city."

Besides the feasts mentioned above, the Jews had,

1. The feast of the Sabbath, which was a weekly feast.

2. The feast of the Sabbatical Year, which was a septennial feast.

3. The feast of Trumpets, which was celebrated on the first day of what was called their civil year, which was ushered in by the blowing of a trumpet; Leviticus 23:24, &c.

4. The feast of the New Moon, which was celebrated on the first day the moon appeared after her change.

5. The feast of Expiation, which was celebrated annually on the tenth day of Tisri or September, on which a general atonement was made for all the sins, negligences, and ignorances, throughout the year.

6. The feast of Lots or Purim, to commemorate the preservation of the Jews from the general massacre projected by Haman. See the book of Esther.

7. The feast of the Dedication, or rather the Restoration of the temple, which had been profaned by Antiochus Epiphanes. This was also called the feast of Lights.

Besides these, the Jews have had several other feasts, such as the feast of Branches, to commemorate the taking of Jericho.

The feast of Collections, on the 10th of September, on which they make contributions for the service of the temple and synagogue.

The feast for the death of Nicanor. 1Mac 7:48, &c.

The feast for the discovery of the sacred fire, 2Mac 1:18, &c.

The feast of the carrying of wood to the temple, called Xylophoria, mentioned by Josephus. - WAR, b. ii. c. 17.