The Annual Festivals

¹⁴ “Three times in the year you shall hold a festival for me.

¹⁶ “Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God at the place that he will choose: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, at the Festival of Weeks, and at the Festival of Booths.^[a] They shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed;^(A)

³⁴ “Speak to the Israelites, saying: On the fifteenth day of this seventh month and lasting seven days, there shall be the Festival of Booths^[a] to the Lord.^(A)

¹⁶ You shall count until the day after the seventh Sabbath, fifty days; then you shall present an offering of new grain to the Lord.^(A)

⁵ In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight,^[a] there shall be a Passover offering to the Lord,^(A)

²² You shall observe the Festival of Weeks, the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering at the turn of the year.^{(A) 23} Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.^{(B) 24} For I will cast out nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one shall covet your land when you go up to appear before the Lord your God three times in the year.

¹⁷ Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord God.