Exodus 23:17

Young's Literal Translation

`Three times in a year do all thy males appear before the face of the Lord Jehovah.

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.

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 `And six years thou dost sow thy land, and hast gathered its increase; <sup>11</sup> and the seventh thou dost release it, and hast left it, and the needy of thy people have eaten, and their leaving doth the beast of the field eat; so dost thou to thy vineyard -- to thine olive-yard. <sup>12</sup> `Six days thou dost do thy work, and on the seventh day thou dost rest, so that thine ox and thine ass doth rest, and the son of thine handmaid and the sojourner is refreshed; ¹³ and in all that which I have said unto you ye do take heed; and the name of other gods ye do not mention; it is not heard on thy mouth. ¹⁴ `Three times thou dost keep a feast to Me in a year; <sup>15</sup> the Feast of Unleavened things thou dost keep; seven days thou dost eat unleavened things, as I have commanded thee, at the time appointed [in] the month of Abib; for in it thou hast come forth out of Egypt, and ye do not appear [in] My presence empty; <sup>16</sup> and the Feast of Harvest, the first fruits of thy works which thou sowest in the field; and the Feast of the In-Gathering, in the outgoing of the year, in thy gathering thy works out of the field. <sup>17</sup> `Three times in a year do all thy males appear before the face of the Lord Jehovah. ¹⁸ `Thou dost not sacrifice on a fermented thing the blood of My sacrifice, and the fat of My festival doth not remain till morning; ¹⁹ the beginning of the first-fruits of thy ground thou dost bring into the house of Jehovah thy God; thou dost not boil a kid 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
And Abraham riseth and boweth himself to the people of the land, to the sons of Heth,

Genesis 23:10
And Ephron is sitting in the midst of the sons of Heth, and Ephron the Hittite answereth Abraham in the ears of the sons of Heth, of all those entering the gate of his city, saying,

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

Genesis 23:20
and established are the field, and the cave which [is] in it, to Abraham for a possession of a burying-place, from the sons of Heth.

Genesis 25:9
And Isaac and Ishmael his sons bury him at the cave of Machpelah, at the field of Ephron, son of Zoar the Hittite, which [is] before Mamre --

Genesis 50:13
and his sons bear him away to the land of Canaan, and bury him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a burying-place, from Ephron the Hittite, on the front of Mamre.

Psalms 112:5
Good [is] the man -- gracious and lending, He sustaineth his matters in judgment.

Matthew 10:16
`Lo, I do send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, be ye therefore wise as the serpents, and simple as the doves.

Acts 7:16
and they were carried over into Sychem, and were laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in money from the sons of Emmor, of Sychem.

Ephesians 5:15
See, then, how exactly ye walk, 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.