Verse 17
Exodus 23:17
Bible in Basic English
17
Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord God (Elohim).
Original Language Text
hebrew
שָׁלֹ֥שׁ פְּעָמִ֖ים בַּ/שָּׁנָ֑ה יֵרָאֶה֙ כָּל זְכ֣וּרְ/ךָ֔ אֶל פְּנֵ֖י הָ/אָדֹ֥ן יְהוָֽה
English Translation
Three times a year, every male among you shall appear before the Lord YHWH.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
Done.
Sign in to save notes and annotations.
Chapter 23 Context
1
Do not let a false statement go further; do not make an agreement with evil-doers to be a false witn...
Focus ↗
2
Do not be moved to do wrong by the general opinion, or give the support of your words to a wrong dec...
Focus ↗
3
But, on the other hand, do not be turned from what is right in order to give support to a poor man's...
Focus ↗
4
If you come across the ox or the ass of one who is no friend to you wandering from its way, you are...
Focus ↗
5
If you see the ass of one who has no love for you bent down to the earth under the weight which is p...
Focus ↗
6
Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause.
Focus ↗
7
Keep yourselves far from any false business; never let the upright or him who has done no wrong be p...
Focus ↗
8
Take no rewards in a cause: for rewards make blind those who have eyes to see, and make the decision...
Focus ↗
9
Do not be hard on the man from a strange country who is living among you; for you have had experienc...
Focus ↗
10
For six years put seed into your fields and get in the increase;
Focus ↗
11
But in the seventh year let the land have a rest and be unplanted; so that the poor may have food fr...
Focus ↗
12
For six days do your work, and on the seventh day keep the Sabbath; so that your ox and your ass may...
Focus ↗
13
Take note of all these things which I have said to you, and let not the names of other gods come int...
Focus ↗
14
Three times in the year you are to keep a feast to me.
Focus ↗
15
You are to keep the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days let your bread be without leaven, as I...
Focus ↗
16
And the feast of the grain-cutting, the first-fruits of your planted fields: and the feast at the st...
Focus ↗
17
Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord God (Elohim).
18
Do not give the blood of my offering with leavened bread; and do not let the fat of my feast be kept...
Focus ↗
19
The best of the first-fruits of your land are to be taken into the house of the Lord your God (Elohi...
Focus ↗
20
See, I am sending an angel before you, to keep you on your way and to be your guide into the place w...
Focus ↗
21
Give attention to him and give ear to his voice; do not go against him; for your wrongdoing will not...
Focus ↗
22
But if you truly give ear to his voice, and do whatever I say, then I will be against those who are...
Focus ↗
23
And my angel will go before you, guiding you into the land of the Amorite and the Hittite and the Pe...
Focus ↗
24
Do not go down on your faces and give worship to their gods, or do as they do; but overcome them com...
Focus ↗
25
And give worship to the Lord your God (Elohim), who will send his blessing on your bread and on your...
Focus ↗
26
All your animals will give birth without loss, not one will be without young in all your land; I wil...
Focus ↗
27
I will send my fear before you, putting to flight all the people to whom you come; all those who are...
Focus ↗
28
I will send hornets before you, driving out the Hivite and the Canaanite and the Hittite before your...
Focus ↗
29
I will not send them all out in one year, for fear that their land may become waste, and the beasts...
Focus ↗
30
Little by little I will send them away before you, till your numbers are increased and you take up y...
Focus ↗
31
I will let the limits of your land be from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the w...
Focus ↗
32
Make no agreement with them or with their gods.
Focus ↗
33
Let them not go on living in your land, or they will make you do evil against me: for if you give wo...
Focus ↗