Exodus 34:23

23 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear in the sight of the almighty Lord the God of Israel.

Exodus 34:23 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 34:23

Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear
before the Lord God
At the three above mentioned feasts, (See Gill on Exodus 23:17) here it is added,

the God of Israel;
who had chosen them to be his special people, had redeemed them out of Egypt, and done great things for them since; had made a covenant with them, and had now renewed that covenant with them, and was their covenant God, and they his people, and so were under great obligations to present themselves unto him at the times appointed by him.

Exodus 34:23 In-Context

21 Six days shalt thou work, the seventh day thou shalt cease to plough and to reap.
22 Thou shalt keep the feast of weeks with the firstfruits of the corn of thy wheat harvest, and the feast when the time of the year returneth that all things are laid in.
23 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear in the sight of the almighty Lord the God of Israel.
24 For when I shall have taken away the nations from thy face, and shall have enlarged thy borders, no man shall lie in wait against thy land when thou shalt go up, and appear in the sight of the Lord thy God thrice in a year.
25 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice upon leaven; neither shall there remain in the morning any thing of the victim of the solemnity of the Phase.
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