Exodus 23:17

New Century Version

"So three times during every year all your males must come to worship 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 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.

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

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 "For six years you are to plant and harvest crops on your land. ¹¹ Then during the seventh year, do not plow or plant your land. If any food grows there, allow the poor people to have it, and let the wild animals eat what is left. You should do the same with your vineyards and your orchards of olive trees. ¹² "You should work six days a week, but on the seventh day you must rest. This lets your ox and your donkey rest, and it also lets the slave born in your house and the foreigner be refreshed. ¹³ "Be sure to do all that I have said to you. You must not even say the names of other gods; those names must not come out of your mouth. ¹⁴ "Three times each year you must hold a feast to honor me. ¹⁵ You must celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the way I commanded you. For seven days you must eat bread that is made without yeast at the set time during the month of Abib, the month when you came out of Egypt. No one is to come to worship me without bringing an offering. ¹⁶ "You must celebrate the Feast of Weeks. Offer to God the first things you harvest from the crops you planted in your fields. "You must celebrate the Feast of Shelters in the fall, when you gather all the crops from your fields. ¹⁷ "So three times during every year all your males must come to worship the Lord God. ¹⁸ "You must not offer animal blood along with anything that has yeast in it. "You must not save any of the fat from the sacrifice for the next day. ¹⁹ "You must bring the best of the firstfruits of your land to the Holy Tent of the Lord your God. "You must not cook a young goat 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 rose and bowed to the people of the land, the Hittites.

Genesis 23:10
Ephron was sitting among the Hittites at the city gate. He answered Abraham,

Genesis 23:14
Ephron answered Abraham,

Genesis 23:20
So Abraham bought the field and the cave in it from the Hittites to use as a burying place.

Genesis 25:9
His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah in the field of Ephron east of Mamre. (Ephron was the son of Zohar the Hittite.)

Genesis 50:13
They carried his body to the land of Canaan and buried it in the cave in the field of Machpelah near Mamre. Abraham had bought this cave and field from Ephron the Hittite to use as a burial place.

Psalms 112:5
It is good to be merciful and generous. Those who are fair in their business

Matthew 10:16
"Listen, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. So be as clever as snakes and as innocent as doves.

Acts 7:16
Later their bodies were moved to Shechem and put in a grave there. (It was the same grave Abraham had bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.)

Ephesians 5:15
So be very careful how you live. Do not live like those who are not wise, but live wisely.

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.