Exodus 23:17
At three times in the year all your males will appear before the Sovereign LORD.
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- Deut 16:16 : 16 Three times a year all your males must appear before the LORD your God in the place he chooses for the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Shelters; and they must not appear before him empty-handed.
- Exod 34:23 : 23 At three times in the year all your men must appear before the Sovereign LORD, the God of Israel.
- Deut 12:5 : 5 But you must seek only the place he chooses from all your tribes to establish his name as his place of residence, and you must go there.
- Exod 23:14 : 14 “Three times in the year you must make a pilgrim feast to me.
- Deut 31:11 : 11 when all Israel comes to appear before the LORD your God in the place he chooses, you must read this law before them within their hearing.
- Ps 84:7 : 7 They are sustained as they travel along; each one appears before God in Zion.
- Luke 2:42 : 42 When he was twelve years old, they went up according to custom.
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- Exod 34:22-243 verses93%
22“You must observe the Feast of Weeks– the firstfruits of the harvest of wheat– and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year.
23At three times in the year all your men must appear before the Sovereign LORD, the God of Israel.
24For I will drive out the nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one will covet your land when you go up to appear before the LORD your God three times in the year.
- Deut 16:15-173 verses89%
15You are to celebrate the festival seven days before the LORD your God in the place he chooses, for he will bless you in all your productivity and in whatever you do; so you will indeed rejoice!
16Three times a year all your males must appear before the LORD your God in the place he chooses for the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Shelters; and they must not appear before him empty-handed.
17Every one of you must give as you are able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God that he has given you.
- Exod 23:14-163 verses86%
14“Three times in the year you must make a pilgrim feast to me.
15You are to observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread; seven days you must eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you, at the appointed time of the month of Abib, for at that time you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before me empty-handed.
16“You are also to observe the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors that you have sown in the field, and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year when you have gathered in your harvest out of the field.
- Lev 23:1-44 verses76%
1Regulations for Israel’s Appointed Times The LORD spoke to Moses:
2“Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘These are the LORD’s appointed times which you must proclaim as holy assemblies– my appointed times:
3The Weekly Sabbath“‘Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a Sabbath of complete rest, a holy assembly. You must not do any work; it is a Sabbath to the LORD in all the places where you live.
4The Festival of Passover and Unleavened Bread“‘These are the LORD’s appointed times, holy assemblies, which you must proclaim at their appointed time.
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13He observed the daily requirements for sacrifices that Moses had specified for Sabbaths, new moon festivals, and the three annual celebrations– the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Shelters.
- Lev 23:37-382 verses74%
37“‘These are the appointed times of the LORD that you must proclaim as holy assemblies to present a gift to the LORD– burnt offering, grain offering, sacrifice, and drink offerings, each day according to its regulation,
38besides the Sabbaths of the LORD and all your gifts, votive offerings, and freewill offerings which you must give to the LORD.
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20You and your household must eat them annually before the LORD your God in the place he chooses.
- Deut 31:10-112 verses72%
10He commanded them:“At the end of seven years, at the appointed time of the cancellation of debts, at the Feast of Shelters,
11when all Israel comes to appear before the LORD your God in the place he chooses, you must read this law before them within their hearing.
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31and whenever burnt sacrifices were offered to the LORD on the Sabbath and at new moon festivals and assemblies. A designated number were to serve before the LORD regularly in accordance with regulations.
- Exod 13:10-112 verses72%
10So you must keep this ordinance at its appointed time from year to year.
11When the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,
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28At the end of every three years you must bring all the tithe of your produce, in that very year, and you must store it up in your villages.
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21“‘On this very day you must proclaim an assembly; it is to be a holy assembly for you. You must not do any regular work. This is a perpetual statute in all the places where you live throughout your generations.
- Lev 23:9-102 verses70%
9The Presentation of First Fruits The LORD spoke to Moses:
10“Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘When you enter the land that I am about to give to you and you gather in its harvest, then you must bring the sheaf of the first portion of your harvest to the priest,
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23From one month to the next and from one Sabbath to the next, all people will come to worship me,” says the LORD.
- Deut 16:10-112 verses70%
10Then you are to celebrate the Feast of Weeks before the LORD your God with the voluntary offering that you will bring, in proportion to how he has blessed you.
11You shall rejoice before him– you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites in your villages, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows among you– in the place where the LORD chooses to locate his name.
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16Then all who survive from all the nations that came to attack Jerusalem will go up annually to worship the King, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, and to observe the Feast of Shelters.
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3All the men of Israel assembled before the king during the festival in the seventh month.
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3and you make an offering by fire to the LORD from the herd or from the flock(whether a burnt offering or a sacrifice for discharging a vow or as a freewill offering or in your solemn feasts) to create a pleasing aroma to the LORD,
- Lev 23:6-72 verses69%
6Then on the fifteenth day of the same month will be the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD; seven days you must eat unleavened bread.
7On the first day there will be a holy assembly for you; you must not do any regular work.
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5Another third of you will be stationed at the royal palace and still another third at the Foundation Gate. All the others will stand in the courtyards of the LORD’s temple.
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4Israel has an Appointment with God“Go to Bethel and rebel! At Gilgal rebel some more! Bring your sacrifices in the morning, your tithes on the third day!
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35We also accept responsibility for bringing the first fruits of our land and the first fruits of every fruit tree year by year to the temple of the LORD.
- Lev 19:24-252 verses69%
24In the fourth year all its fruit will be holy, praise offerings to the LORD.
25Then in the fifth year you may eat its fruit to add its produce to your harvest. I am the LORD your God.
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13The Festival of Temporary Shelters You must celebrate the Feast of Shelters for seven days, at the time of the grain and grape harvest.
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29“Do not hold back offerings from your granaries or your vats. You must give me the firstborn of your sons.
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6For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast, and on the seventh day there is to be a festival to the LORD.
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41You must celebrate it as a pilgrim festival to the LORD for seven days in the year. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations; you must celebrate it in the seventh month.
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26Firstfruits“‘Also, on the day of the first fruits, when you bring a new grain offering to the LORD during your Feast of Weeks, you are to have a holy assembly. You must do no ordinary work.
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14You must not eat bread, roasted grain, or fresh grain until this very day, until you bring the offering of your God. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live.
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12The Feast of Temporary Shelters“‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you are to have a holy assembly; you must do no ordinary work, and you must keep a festival to the LORD for seven days.
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23The Festival of Horn Blasts The LORD spoke to Moses:
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5So what will you do on the festival day, on the festival days of the LORD?
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3The people of the land will bow down at the entrance of that gate before the LORD on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.
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18Only in the presence of the LORD your God may you eat these, in the place he chooses. This applies to you, your son, your daughter, your male and female servants, and the Levites in your villages. In that place you will rejoice before the LORD your God in all the output of your labor.