Exodus 23:17

Easy-to-Read Version

"So three times each year all the men will come to the special place to be with the Lord God .

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord GOD.

King James Version
Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord God.

Lexham English Bible
Three times in the year all your men will appear before the Lord Yahweh.

New Century Version
"So three times during every year all your males must come to worship the Lord God.

New English Translation
At three times in the year all your males will appear before the Lord God .

Amplified Bible
"Three times a 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.

Geneva Bible (1587)
These three times in the yeere shall all thy men children appeare before the Lord Iehouah.

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

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

Complete Jewish Bible
Three times a year all your men are to appear before the Lord, Adonai .

Darby Translation
Three times in the year all thy males shall appear in the presence of the Lord Jehovah.

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

George Lamsa Translation
Three times in the year all your gift offerings shall appear before the LORD your God.

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

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

Literal Translation
Three times in the year every one of your males shall appear before the Lord Jehovah.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thre tymes in the yeare shal euery male that thou hast, appeare before the LORDE the Gouernoure.

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

Bible in Basic English
Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord God.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
[These] three times in the yere, shall all thy men chyldren appeare before the Lorde God.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.

King James Version (1611)
Three times in the yeere all thy males shall appeare before the Lord God.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Three times in the 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.

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thries in the yeer al thi male kynde schal appere bifore thi Lord God.

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

Update Bible Version
Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh.

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.

New King James Version
Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord God. [fn]

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

New Life Bible
Three times a year all your males will come before the Lord God.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Three times in the year, shall all thy males see the face of the Lord, Yahweh.

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

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

THE MESSAGE
"Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Master, God .

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord GOD.

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 34:23, Deuteronomy 12:5, Deuteronomy 16:16, Deuteronomy 31:11, Psalms 84:7, Luke 2:42

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 1:3 - yearly Psalms 122:4 - Whither Isaiah 1:12 - When Ezekiel 36:38 - as the flock John 7:2 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 23:7
Abraham got up and bowed to the people.

Genesis 23:10
Ephron was sitting there among the people. He answered Abraham,

Genesis 23:14
Ephron answered Abraham,

Genesis 23:20
Abraham bought the field and the cave in it from the Hittites. So this became his property to be used as a burial place.

Genesis 25:9
His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah. This cave is in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar. It was east of Mamre.

Genesis 50:13
They carried his body to Canaan and buried it in the cave at Machpelah. This was the cave near Mamre in the field that Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite. Abraham bought that cave to use as a burial place.

Psalms 112:5
It is good for people to be kind and generous and to be fair in business.

Matthew 10:16
"Listen! I am sending you, and you will be like sheep among wolves. So be smart like snakes. But also be like doves and don't hurt anyone.

Acts 7:16
Later, their bodies were moved to Shechem, where they were put in a tomb. It was the same tomb that Abraham had bought in Shechem from the sons of Hamor. He paid them with silver.

Ephesians 5:15
So be very careful how you live. Live wisely, not like fools.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord thy God. In the city of Jerusalem, when they were come into the land of Canaan, and the temple was there built: here they were to show themselves before the Lord as being his, and devoted to his service; concerning which the Misnic doctors have the following canon c,

"all are bound to appear except a man deaf and dumb, a fool, a little one, one of neither sex, or of both sexes, women, servants not free, the lame, the blind, the sick, an old man, and he that cannot go on his feet.''

c Misn. Chagigah, c. 1. sect. 1.

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 23:17. All thy males — Old men, sick men, male idiots, and male children under thirteen years of age, excepted; for so the Jewish doctors understand this command.