Exodus 23:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.

Exodus 23:17 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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:
Exodus 34:23
Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
Deuteronomy 12:5
But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:
Deuteronomy 31:11
When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
Exodus 23:14
Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 10-19)

Here is, I. The institution of the sabbatical year, Exod. 23:10, 11. Every seventh year the land was to rest; they must not plough nor sow it at the beginning of the year, and then they could not expect any great harvest at the end of the year: but what the earth did produce of itself should be eaten from hand to mouth, and not laid up. Now this was designed, 1. To show what a plentiful land that…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

14-18. Three times ... keep a feast ... in the year--This was the institution of the great religious festivals--“The feast of unleavened bread,” or the passover--“the feast of harvest,” or pentecost--“the feast of ingathering,” or the feast of tabernacles, which was a memorial of the dwelling in booths in the wilderness, and which was observed in the seventh month (Ex 12:2). All the males were enj…