Exodus 23:17

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Three times in the year, shall all thy males see the face of the Lord, Yahweh.

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.

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 .

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 And six years, shalt thou sow thy land, - and shalt gather the yield thereof; ¹¹ but the seventh year, shalt thou let it rest and be still so shall the needy of thy people eat, and what they leave, shall the wild-beast of the field eat, - in like manner, shalt thou deal with thy vineyard with thine oliveyard. ¹² Six days, shalt thou do thy work, but on the seventh day, shalt thou keep sabbath, - that thine ox may rest and thine ass, and that the son of thy handmaid and the sojourner may be refreshed. ¹³ And, in all that I have said unto thee, shalt thou take heed to thyself, - and the name of other gods, shalt thou not mention, it shall not be heard upon thy mouth. ¹⁴ Three times, shalt thou keep festival to me, in the year. ¹⁵ The festival of unleavened cakes, shalt thou keep, - seven days, shalt thou eat unleavened cakes, as I commanded thee at the appointed time of the month Abib; for, therein, camest thou forth out of Egypt, - and they shall not see my face, empty-handed. ¹⁶ And the festival of harvest with the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou shalt sow in the field, And the festival of ingathering - at the outgoing of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field. ¹⁷ Three times in the year, shall all thy males see the face of the Lord, Yahweh. ¹⁸ Thou shalt not offer with anything leavened, the blood of my sacrifice, - neither shall the fat of my festival-sacrifice remain until morning. ¹⁹ The beginning of the firstfruits of thy ground, shalt thou bring into the house of Yahweh thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of its dam.

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
And Abraham rose up, and bowed himself down to the people of the land, to the sons of Heth;

Genesis 23:10
Now, Ephron, was sitting in the midst of the sons of Heth, - so Ephron the Hittite responded to Abraham, in the ears of the sons of Heth, even all that were entering the gate of his city, saying:

Genesis 23:14
And Ephron responded to Abraham, saying to him,

Genesis 23:20
So was confirmed the field with the cave which was therein to Abraham, for a possession of a buryingplace, - from the sons of Heth.

Genesis 25:9
And Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him, in the cave of Machpelah, - in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite, which is over against Mamre;

Genesis 50:13
so his sons carried him to the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, - which Abraham bought - with the field - for a possession of a buryingplace from Ephron the Hittite over against Mamre.

Psalms 112:5
Well for a man showing favour and lending! He shall sustain his affairs with justice.

Matthew 10:16
Lo! I, send you forth as sheep amidst wolves; become ye therefore - prudent, as serpents, and simple, as doves.

Acts 7:16
And were brought over into Shechem, and laid in the tomb which Abraham had purchased, for a price of silver, of the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

Ephesians 5:15
Be taking heed, therefore, exactly how ye are walking, - not as unwise, but as wise, -

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.