Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
Parallel translations
- WEB Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel.
- KJV Thrice in the year shall all your menchildren appear before the LORD God, the God of Israel.
- NKJV “Three times in the year all your men shall appear before the Lord, the Lord God of Israel.
- NASB Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.
- NLT Three times each year every man in Israel must appear before the Sovereign, the Lord, the God of Israel.
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Quick answer
Three times a year every Israelite man must appear before the LORD, the God of Israel.
Overview
The three pilgrim feasts required the men to gather at the sanctuary, binding the nation together in shared worship of their covenant God. The title 'the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel' stresses His exclusive claim. These gatherings anticipate the assembling of God's people around Christ, in whom all worship now centers (Hebrews 12:22-24).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Exod 23:14Three times a year you are to celebrate a feast to Me.
- Exod 23:17Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD.
- Deut 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.
- Gen 32:28Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”
- Gen 33:20There he set up an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.
- Ps 84:7They go from strength to strength, until each appears before God in Zion.
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The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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