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Exodus 23:14
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"You shall observe a feast to me three times a year.
Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
"‘Three times in the year you will hold a festival for me.
"Three times each year you must hold a feast to honor me.
"Three times in the year you must make a pilgrim feast to me.
"Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast [dedicated] to Me.
"Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me.
Three times thou shalt keepe a feast vnto me in the yeere.
"Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me.
The Lord said: Celebrate three festivals each year in my honor.
"Three times a year, you are to observe a festival for me.
Thrice in the year thou shalt celebrate a feast to me.
"You will have three special festivals each year. You must come to my special place to worship me during these festivals.
"Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me.
Three times in the year you shall celebrate a festival for me.
"Celebrate three festivals a year to honor me.
“Celebrate a festival in my honor three times a year.
Three times in the year you shall make a feast to Me.
Thre tymes in the yeare
Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
Three times in the year you are to keep a feast to me.
Three feastes thou shalt holde vnto me in a yere.
Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto Me in the year.
Three times thou shalt keepe a feast vnto me in the yeere.
Keep ye a feast to me three times in the year.
Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
Three times a year you are to celebrate a feast to Me.
In thre tymes bi alle yeeris ye schulen halewe feestis to me.
`Three times thou dost keep a feast to Me in a year;
Three times you shall keep a feast to me in the year.
Three times thou shalt keep a feast to me in the year.
"You shall observe a feast to me three times a year.
Exodus 34:18-26; Deuteronomy 16:1-17">[xr] "Three times you shall keep a feast to Me in the year:
"Each year you must celebrate three festivals in my honor.
"Three times a year you will have a special supper to honor Me.
Three times in the year you shall hold a festival for me.
Three times, shalt thou keep festival to me, in the year.
Three times every year you shall celebrate feasts to me.
"Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me.
"Three times a year you are to hold a festival for me.
"Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Exodus 34:22, Leviticus 23:5, Leviticus 23:16, Leviticus 23:34, Deuteronomy 16:16
Reciprocal: Exodus 34:23 - Thrice Leviticus 23:2 - the feasts Leviticus 23:4 - General Judges 21:19 - a feast 1 Samuel 1:3 - yearly 1 Samuel 2:19 - from year to year 1 Kings 9:25 - three times 2 Chronicles 8:13 - three times Ezra 3:1 - the seventh Ezekiel 46:9 - come before Luke 2:41 - went John 5:1 - General
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Three times thou shall keep a feast unto me in the year. The feast of the passover, on the fourteenth of the month Nisan or March; and the feast of weeks or pentecost fifty days after that; and the feast of tabernacles on the fifteenth day of Tisri or September.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
This is the first mention of the three great Yearly Festivals. The feast of Unleavened bread, in its connection with the Paschal Lamb, is spoken of in Exodus 12:0; Exodus 13:0: but the two others are here first named. The whole three are spoken of as if they were familiarly known to the people. The points that are especially enjoined are that every male Israelite should attend them at the sanctuary (compare Exodus 34:23), and that he should take with him an offering for Yahweh, presenting himself before his King with his tribute in his hand. That this condition belonged to all the feasts, though it is here stated only in regard to the Passover, cannot be doubted. See Deuteronomy 16:16.
Exodus 23:15-16
On the Feast of Unleavened Bread, or the Passover, see Exodus 12:1-20, Exodus 12:43-50; Exodus 13:3-16; Exodus 34:18-20; Leviticus 23:4-14. On the Feast of the Firstfruits of Harvest, called also the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Pentecost, see Exodus 34:22; Leviticus 23:15-21. On the Feast of Ingathering, called also the Feast of Tabernacles, see Leviticus 23:34-36, Leviticus 23:39-43.
Exodus 23:16
In the end of the year - Compare Exodus 34:22. The year here spoken of must have been the civil or agrarian year, which began after harvest, when the ground was prepared for sowing. Compare Leviticus 23:39; Deuteronomy 16:13-15. The sacred year began in spring, with the month Abib, or Nisan. See Exodus 12:2 note, and Leviticus 25:9.
When thou hast gathered - Rather, when thou gatherest in.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Exodus 23:14. Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. — The three feasts here referred to were,
1. The feast of the PASSOVER;
2. The feast of PENTECOST;
3. The feast of TABERNACLES.
1. The feast of the Passover was celebrated to keep in remembrance the wonderful deliverance of the Hebrews from Egypt.
2. The feast of Pentecost, called also the feast of harvest and the feast of weeks, Exodus 34:22, was celebrated fifty days after the Passover to commemorate the giving of the law on Mount Sinai, which took place fifty days after, and hence called by the Greeks Pentecost.
3. The feast of Tabernacles, called also the feast of the ingathering, was celebrated about the 15th of the month Tisri to commemorate the Israelites' dwelling in tents for forty years, during their stay in the wilderness. Leviticus 23:34.
"God, out of his great wisdom," says Calmet, "appointed several festivals among the Jews for many reasons:
1. To perpetuate the memory of those great events, and the wonders he had wrought for the people; for example, the Sabbath brought to remembrance the creation of the world; the Passover, the departure out of Egypt; the Pentecost, the giving of the law; the feast of Tabernacles, the sojourning of their fathers in the wilderness, c.
2. To keep them faithful to their religion by appropriate ceremonies, and the splendour of Divine service.
3. To procure them lawful pleasures, and necessary rest.
4. To give them instruction for in their religious assemblies the law of God was always read and explained.
5. To consolidate their social union, by renewing the acquaintance of their tribes and families; for on these occasions they come together from different parts of the land to the holy city."
Besides the feasts mentioned above, the Jews had,
1. The feast of the Sabbath, which was a weekly feast.
2. The feast of the Sabbatical Year, which was a septennial feast.
3. The feast of Trumpets, which was celebrated on the first day of what was called their civil year, which was ushered in by the blowing of a trumpet; Leviticus 23:24, &c.
4. The feast of the New Moon, which was celebrated on the first day the moon appeared after her change.
5. The feast of Expiation, which was celebrated annually on the tenth day of Tisri or September, on which a general atonement was made for all the sins, negligences, and ignorances, throughout the year.
6. The feast of Lots or Purim, to commemorate the preservation of the Jews from the general massacre projected by Haman. See the book of Esther.
7. The feast of the Dedication, or rather the Restoration of the temple, which had been profaned by Antiochus Epiphanes. This was also called the feast of Lights.
Besides these, the Jews have had several other feasts, such as the feast of Branches, to commemorate the taking of Jericho.
The feast of Collections, on the 10th of September, on which they make contributions for the service of the temple and synagogue.
The feast for the death of Nicanor. 1Mac 7:48, &c.
The feast for the discovery of the sacred fire, 2Mac 1:18, &c.
The feast of the carrying of wood to the temple, called Xylophoria, mentioned by Josephus. - WAR, b. ii. c. 17.
