Exodus 34:23

Wycliffe Bible

Ech male kynde of thee schal appere in thre tymes of the yeer in the siyt of the Lord Almyyti, thi God of Israel.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Yisra'el.

King James Version
Thrice in the year shall all your menchildren appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.

Lexham English Bible
Three times in the year all your males will appear before the Lord, Yahweh, the God of Israel,

New Century Version
"Three times each year all your males must come before the Lord God , the God of Israel.

New English Translation
At three times in the year all your men must appear before the Lord God , the God of Israel.

Amplified Bible
"Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.

New American Standard Bible
"Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Thrise in a yere shal all your men children appeare before the Lorde Iehouah God of Israel.

Legacy Standard Bible
Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel.

Contemporary English Version
Your men must come to worship me three times a year, because I am the Lord God of Israel.

Complete Jewish Bible
Three times a year all your men are to appear before the Lord, Adonai , the God of Isra'el.

Darby Translation
Thrice in the year shall all thy males appear before the Lord Jehovah, the God of Israel.

Easy-to-Read Version
"Three times each year all your men must go to be with the Lord God , the God of Israel.

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

George Lamsa Translation
Three times a year shall all your memorial offerings be brought before the LORD, the God of Israel.

Good News Translation
"Three times a year all of your men must come to worship me, the Lord , the God of Israel.

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

Literal Translation
Three times in the year every male of yours shall be seen before the face of the Lord Jehovah, the God of Israel.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thryse in a yeare shal all yor men children appeare before the Souernoure, euen the LORDE and God of Israel.

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

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

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thryse in a yere shall all your men chyldren appeare before the Lorde Iehouah God of Israel.

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

King James Version (1611)
Thrice in the yeere shall all your men children appeare before the Lord God, the God of Israel.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Three times in the year shall every male of thine appear before the Lord the God of Israel.

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

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

Young's Literal Translation
`Three times in a year do all thy males appear before the Lord Jehovah, God of Israel;

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

Webster's Bible Translation
Thrice in the year shall all your male children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.

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

New King James Version
"Three times in the year all your men shall appear before the Lord, the LORD God of Israel.

New Living Translation
Three times each year every man in Israel must appear before the Sovereign, the Lord , the God of Israel.

New Life Bible
Three times a year all your males are to come before the Lord God, the God of Israel.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
three times in the year, shall every one of thy males see the face of the Lord Yahweh the God of Israel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Three times in the year all thy males shall appear in the sight of the almighty Lord the God of Israel.

Revised Standard Version
Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the LORD God, the God of Israel.

THE MESSAGE
"All your men are to appear before the Master, the God of Israel, three times a year. You won't have to worry about your land when you appear before your God three times each year, for I will drive out the nations before you and give you plenty of land. Nobody's going to be hanging around plotting ways to get it from you.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ Thou schalt kepe the solempynyte of therf looues; seuene daies thou schalt ete therf looues, as Y comaundide to thee, in the time of the monethe of newe fruytis; for in the monethe of veer tyme thou yedist out of Egipt. ¹⁹ Al thing of male kynde that openeth the wombe schal be myn, of alle lyuynge beestis, as wel of oxun, as of scheep, it schal be myn. ²⁰ Thou schalt ayenbie with a scheep the firste gendrid of an asse, ellis if thou yyuest not prijs therfor, it schal be slayn. Thou schalt ayenbie the firste gendrid of thi sones; nether thou schalt appere voide in my siyt. ²¹ Sixe daies thou schalt worche, the seuenthe day thou schalt ceesse to ere and repe. ²² Thou schalt make to thee the solempnyte of woukis in the firste thingis of fruytis of thi ripe corn of wheete, and the solempnyte, whanne alle thingis ben gadrid in to bernes, whanne the tyme `of yeer cometh ayen. ²³ Ech male kynde of thee schal appere in thre tymes of the yeer in the siyt of the Lord Almyyti, thi God of Israel. ²⁴ For whanne Y schal take awei folkis fro thi face, and Y schal alarge thi termes, noon schal sette tresouns to thi lond, while thou stiest and apperist in the siyt of thi Lord God, thries in the yeer. ²⁵ Thou schalt not offre on sour dow the blood of my sacrifice, nethir ony thing of the slayn sacrifice of the solempnyte of fase schal abide in the morewtid. ²⁶ Thou schalt offre in the hows of thi Lord God the firste of the fruytis of thi lond. Thou schalt not sethe a kide in the mylk of his modir. ²⁷ And the Lord seide to Moises, Write thou these wordis, bi whiche Y smoot a boond of pees, bothe with thee and with Israel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Thrice: Exodus 23:14, Exodus 23:17, Deuteronomy 16:16, Psalms 84:7

the God: Genesis 32:28, Genesis 33:20

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 1:3 - yearly 1 Kings 9:25 - three times Psalms 122:4 - Whither Isaiah 1:12 - When Ezekiel 36:38 - as the flock Ezekiel 46:9 - come before Luke 2:41 - went John 5:1 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 34:4
And he yede to Emor,

Genesis 34:5
his fadir, and seide, Take to me this damysel a wijf. And whanne Jacob hadde herd this thing, while the sones weren absent, and ocupied in the fedyng of scheep, he was stille, til thei camen ayen.

Genesis 34:6
Sotheli whanne Emor, the fadir of Sichem, was gon out, `that he schulde speke to Jacob, lo!

Genesis 34:10
and take ye oure douytris, and dwelle ye with vs; the lond is in youre power, tile ye, make ye marchaundise, and welde ye it.

Genesis 34:12
encreesse ye the dower, and axe ye yiftis, Y schal yyue wilfull that that ye axen; oonli yyue ye this damysele a wijf to me.

Genesis 34:13
The sones of Jacob answeriden in gile to Sichem and his fadir, and weren feerse for the defoulyng of maidenhod of the sistir,

Genesis 34:24
And alle men assentiden, and alle malis weren circumcidid.

Genesis 34:26
thei killiden Emor and Sichem togidere, and token Dyna, her sistir, fro the hous of Sichem.

Genesis 34:27
And whanne thei weren goon out, othere sones of Jacob felden in on the slayn men, and rifeliden the citee for the veniaunce of defoulyng of a virgyn.

Proverbs 28:20
A feithful man schal be preisid myche; but he that hastith to be maad riche, schal not be innocent.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord God,.... At the three above mentioned feasts,

:- here it is added,

the God of Israel; who had chosen them to be his special people, had redeemed them out of Egypt, and done great things for them since; had made a covenant with them, and had now renewed that covenant with them, and was their covenant God, and they his people, and so were under great obligations to present themselves unto him at the times appointed by him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The precepts contained in these verses are, for the most part, identical in substance with some of those which follow the Ten Commandments and are recorded in “the Book of the covenant” (Exo. 20–23; see Exodus 24:7).

Exodus 34:13

Cut down their groves - This is the first reference to what is commonly known as grove-worship. The original word for “grove” in this connection אשׁרה 'ăshêrāh is different from that so rendered in Genesis 21:33. Our translators supposed that what the law commands is the destruction of groves dedicated to the worship of false deities Judges 6:25; 2 Kings 18:4; but inasmuch as the worship of asherah is found associated with that of Astarte, or Ashtoreth Judges 2:13; Jdg 10:6; 1 Samuel 7:4, it seems probable that while Astarte was the personal name of the goddess, the asherah was a symbol of her, probably in some one of her characters, made in wood in some conventional form.

Exodus 34:15-16

An expansion of Exodus 34:12. The unfaithfulness of the nation to its covenant with Yahweh is here for the first time spoken of as a breach of the marriage bond. The metaphor is, in any case, a natural one, but it seems to gain point, if we suppose it to convey an allusion to the abominations connected with pagan worship, such as are spoken of in Numbers 25:1-3.

Exodus 34:21

See Exodus 20:9; Exodus 23:12. There is here added to the commandment a particular caution respecting those times of year when the land calls for most labor. The old verb “to ear” (i. e. to plow) is genuine English.

Exodus 34:24

Neither shall any man desire etc. - Intended to encourage such as might fear the consequences of obeying the divine law in attending to their religious duties. Compare Proverbs 16:7.