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Exodus 23:17

Exodus 23:17 is verse 17 of Exodus chapter 23, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD.

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King James Version

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.

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Exodus 23:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible

15 You 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.

16 You are also to keep the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in the field. And keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field.

17 Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD.

18 You must not offer the blood of My sacrifices with anything leavened, nor may the fat of My feast remain until morning.

19 Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Exodus 34:23

Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.

Deuteronomy 12:5

Instead, 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 16:16

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.

Deuteronomy 31:11

when 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 84:7

They go from strength to strength, until each appears before God in Zion.

Luke 2:42

And when He was twelve years old, they went up according to the custom of the Feast.

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