Exodus Chapter 23 verse 17 Holy Bible

ASV Exodus 23:17

Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord Jehovah.
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BBE Exodus 23:17

Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord God.
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DARBY Exodus 23:17

Three times in the year all thy males shall appear in the presence of the Lord Jehovah.
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KJV Exodus 23:17

Three items in the year all thy males shall appear before the LORD God.
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WBT Exodus 23:17

Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.
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WEB Exodus 23:17

Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh.
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YLT Exodus 23:17

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

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 17. - Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord God. This seems to moderns a very burthensome enactment. But we must remember that Palestine is not bigger than Wales, and that great gatherings had great attractions for many in the ancient world, when they were the only means by which information was spread, and almost the only occasions on which friends and relations who lived far apart could expect to see each other. The European Greeks had, in their Olympian and other games, similar great gatherings, which occurred once or twice in each year, and, though under no obligation to do so, attended them in enormous numbers. It may be doubted if the religious Hebrews felt the obligation of attendance to be a burthen. It was assuredly a matter of great importance, as tending to unity, and to the quickening of the national life, that they should be drawn so continually to one centre, and be so frequently united in one common worship. Most students of antiquity regard the Greek games as having exerted a strong unifying influence over the scattered members of the Grecian family. The Hebrew festivals, occurring so much more frequently, and required to be attended by all, must have had a similar, but much greater, effect of the same kind.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(17) Three times in the year.--The terms of this verse, as compared with Exodus 23:14, limit the observance of the three festivals to the males, but add the important requirement of personal attendance at a given place. By "all thy males" we must understand all of full age and not incapacitated by infirmity or illness.