Exodus 23:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD.”
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BSBPD
“Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord God.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord Jehovah.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“`Three times in a year do all thy males appear before the face of the Lord Jehovah.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Exodus 23:17 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 23:14Three times a year you are to celebrate a feast to Me.
- Exodus 34:23Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 12:5Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.
- Deuteronomy 16:16Three 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.
- Deuteronomy 31:11when all Israel comes before the LORD your God at the place He will choose, you are to read this law in the hearing of all Israel.
- Psalms 42:3My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”
- Psalms 84:7They go from strength to strength, until each appears before God in Zion.
- Luke 2:42And when He was twelve years old, they went up according to the custom of the Feast.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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