Exodus 23:14-17

The Three Annual Festivals

14 “Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival to me.
15 “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread; for seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt. “No one is to appear before me empty-handed.
16 “Celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field. “Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.
17 “Three times a year all the men are to appear before the Sovereign LORD.

Cross References 9

  • 1. ver 17; S Exodus 12:14; Exodus 34:23,24; Deuteronomy 16:16; 1 Kings 9:25; 2 Chronicles 8:13; Ezekiel 46:9
  • 2. S Exodus 12:17; Matthew 26:17; Luke 22:1; Acts 12:3
  • 3. S Exodus 12:2
  • 4. S Exodus 22:29; Exodus 34:20
  • 5. Leviticus 23:15-21; Numbers 28:26; Deuteronomy 16:9; 2 Chronicles 8:13
  • 6. S Exodus 22:29; S Exodus 34:22
  • 7. Exodus 34:22; Leviticus 23:34,42; Deuteronomy 16:16; Deuteronomy 31:10; Ezra 3:4; Nehemiah 8:14; Zechariah 14:16
  • 8. Leviticus 23:39; Deuteronomy 16:13; Jeremiah 40:10
  • 9. S ver 14; Deuteronomy 16:16
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