²³ Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.^(A)

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)

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

²⁸ Then the man^[a] said, “You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel,^[b] for you have striven with God and with humans^[c] and have prevailed.”^(A)

²⁰ There he erected an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.^[a]