King James Version
Exodus 34:23 in the King James Version says “Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.” — study this verse from Exodus chapter 34 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.”
Exodus 34:23 · KJV
Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end. year's end: Heb. revolution of the year
Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year.
Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Thrice”
H6471a stroke, literally or figuratively (in various applications, as follow)
“appear”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“before”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
“the God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
“of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
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