Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version “Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival to me. New Living Translation “Each year you must celebrate three festivals in my honor. English Standard Version “Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me. Berean Standard Bible Three times a year you are to celebrate a feast to Me. King James Bible Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. New King James Version “Three times you shall keep a feast to Me in the year: New American Standard Bible “Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me. NASB 1995 “Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me. NASB 1977 “Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me. Legacy Standard Bible “Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me. Amplified Bible “Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast [dedicated] to Me. Christian Standard Bible “Celebrate a festival in my honor three times a year. Holman Christian Standard Bible Celebrate a festival in My honor three times a year. American Standard Version Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Make to me a feast three times in a year. Brenton Septuagint Translation Keep ye a feast to me three times in the year. Contemporary English Version Celebrate three festivals each year in my honor. Douay-Rheims Bible Three times every year you shall celebrate feasts to me. English Revised Version Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. GOD'S WORD® Translation "Three times a year you must celebrate a pilgrimage festival in my honor. Good News Translation "Celebrate three festivals a year to honor me. International Standard Version "Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival for me. JPS Tanakh 1917 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto Me in the year. Literal Standard Version You keep a celebration to Me three times in a year: Majority Standard Bible Three times a year you are to celebrate a feast to Me. New American Bible Three times a year you shall celebrate a pilgrim feast to me. NET Bible "Three times in the year you must make a pilgrim feast to me. New Revised Standard Version Three times in the year you shall hold a festival for me. New Heart English Bible "You shall observe a feast to me three times a year. Webster's Bible Translation Three times thou shalt keep a feast to me in the year. World English Bible “You shall observe a feast to me three times a year. Young's Literal Translation 'Three times thou dost keep a feast to Me in a year; Additional Translations ... Context Three Yearly Feasts14Three times a year you are to celebrate a feast to Me. 15You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread as I commanded you: At the appointed time in the month of Abib you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days, because that was the month you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before Me empty-handed.… Cross References Exodus 23:17 Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD. Exodus 34:22 And you are to celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year. Exodus 34:23 Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel. Leviticus 23:4 These are the LORD's appointed feasts, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times. Deuteronomy 16:16 Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed. 1 Samuel 1:3 Year after year Elkanah would go up from his city to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of Hosts at Shiloh, where Eli's two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the LORD. 1 Kings 9:25 Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar he had built for the LORD, burning incense with them before the LORD. So he completed the temple. Treasury of Scripture Three times you shall keep a feast to me in the year. Exodus 34:22 And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end. Leviticus 23:5,16,34 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover… 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: Jump to Previous Celebrate Feast Festival Observe Three Thrice TimesJump to Next Celebrate Feast Festival Observe Three Thrice TimesExodus 23 1. Of slander, false witness, and partiality4. Of charitableness 6. Of justice in judgment 8. Of taking bribes 9. Of oppressing a stranger 10. Of the year of rest 12. Of the Sabbath 13. Of idolatry 14. Of the three feasts 18. Of the blood and the fat of the sacrifice 20. An angel is promised, with a blessing, if they obey him (14-17) The first great festival--the Passover festival--had been already instituted (Exodus 12:3-20; Exodus 13:3-10). It pleased the Divine Legislator at this time to add to that festival two others, and to make all three equally obligatory. There is some reason to suppose that, in germ, the "feast of harvest" and the "feast of ingathering" already existed. All nations, from the earliest time to which history reaches back, had festival seasons of a religious character; and no seasons are more suitable for such festivities than the conclusion of the grain-harvest, and the final completion of the entire harvest of the year. At any rate, whatever the previous practice, these three festival-seasons were now laid down as essential parts of the Law, and continued--supplemented by two others--the national festivals so long as Israel was a nation. In other countries such seasons were more common. Herodotus says that the Egyptians had six great yearly festival-times (ii. 59); and in Greece and Rome there was never a month without some notable religious festivity. Such institutions exerted a political as well as a religious influence, and helped towards national unity. This was more especially the case when, as in the present instance, they were expressly made gatherings of the whole nation to a single centre. What the great Greek panegyries, Olympic, Pythian, &c., were to Hellas, that the three great annual gatherings to the place where God had fixed His name were to Israel--a means of drawing closer the national bond, and counteracting those separatist tendencies which a nation split into tribes almost necessarily developed.Verses 14-17. - Law of Festivals. "The sanctification of days and times," says Richard Hooker, "is a token of that thankfulness and a part of that public honour which we owe to God for admirable benefits, whereof it doth not suffice that we keep a secret calendar, taking thereby our private occasions as we list ourselves to think how much God hath done for all men; but the days which are chosen out to serve as public memorials of such his mercies ought to be clothed with those outward robes of holiness whereby their difference from other days may be made sensible" (Eccles. Pol. 5:70, § 1). All ancient religions had solemn festival seasons, when particular mercies of God were specially commemorated, and when men, meeting together in large numbers, mutually cheered and excited each other to a warmer devotion and a more hearty pouring forth of thanks than human weakness made possible at other times. In Egypt such festivals were frequent, and held a high place in the religion (Herod. 2:58-64:). Abraham's family had probably had observances of the kind in their Mesopotamian home. God's providence saw good now to give supernatural sanction to the natural piety which had been accustomed thus to express itself. Three great feasts were appointed, of which the most remarkable features were - 1. That they were at once agricultural and historical - connected with the regularly recurrent course of the seasons, and connected also with great events in the life of the nation; 2. That they could be kept only at one spot, that namely where the tabernacle was at the time located; 3. That they were to be attended by the whole male population. The three festivals are here called - . . . Hebrew Threeשָׁלֹ֣שׁ (šā·lōš) Number - feminine singular Strong's 7969: Three, third, thrice times רְגָלִ֔ים (rə·ḡā·lîm) Noun - feminine plural Strong's 7272: A foot, a step, the pudenda a year בַּשָּׁנָֽה׃ (baš·šā·nāh) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 8141: A year you are to celebrate a feast תָּחֹ֥ג (tā·ḥōḡ) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 2287: To make a pilgrimage, keep a pilgrim feast to Me. לִ֖י (lî) Preposition | first person common singular Strong's Hebrew Links Exodus 23:14 NIVExodus 23:14 NLT Exodus 23:14 ESV Exodus 23:14 NASB Exodus 23:14 KJV Exodus 23:14 BibleApps.com Exodus 23:14 Biblia Paralela Exodus 23:14 Chinese Bible Exodus 23:14 French Bible Exodus 23:14 Catholic Bible OT Law: Exodus 23:14 You shall observe a feast to me (Exo. Ex) |
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