17Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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:
Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
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:
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.
Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
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 tha…
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