Exodus 23:17
Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord God.
Exodus 23:17 in other translations
| BSB | Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD. |
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| WEB | Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord GOD. |
| ASV | Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord Jehovah. |
| YLT | ‘Three times in a year do all thy males appear before the face of the Lord Jehovah. |
| DARBY | Three times in the year all thy males shall appear in the presence of the Lord Jehovah. |
| BBE | Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord God. |
| Webster | Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD. |
What does Exodus 23:17 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 23:14-18
14-18. Three times ... keep a feast ... in the year--This was the institution of the great religious festivals--"The feast of unleavened bread," or the passover--"the feast of harvest," or pentecost--"the feast of ingathering," or the feast of tabernacles, which was a memorial of the dwelling in booths in the wilderness, and which was observed in the seventh month (Ex 12:2). All the males were enjoined to repair to…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 23:10-19
Every seventh year the land was to rest. They must not plough or sow it; what the earth produced of itself, should be eaten, and not laid up. This law seems to have been intended to teach dependence on Providence, and God's faithfulness in sending the larger increase while they kept his appointments. It was also typical of the heavenly rest, when all earthly labours, cares, and interests shall cease for ever. All…
Exodus 23:17 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Exodus 23:17
- Deuteronomy 16:16
Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the Lord empty:
- Exodus 34:23
Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 31:11
When all Israel is come to appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
- Psalms 84:7
They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
- Exodus 23:14
Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
- Deuteronomy 12:5
But unto the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:
- Luke 2:42
And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast.
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Context
- Exodus 23:16
And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
- Exodus 23:17
Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord God.
- Exodus 23:18
Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.
Exodus 23:17 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Tres veces en el año parecerá todo varón tuyo delante del Señor Jehová. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | – Trois fois l’an tous tes mâles paraîtront devant la face du Seigneur, l’ Éternel. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Dreimal im Jahre sollen alle deine Männlichen vor dem Angesicht des Herrn Jehova erscheinen. - |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Ter in anno apparebit omne masculinum tuum coram Domino Deo tuo. |