Three Yearly Feasts

¹⁴ “Three times each year you must ·hold a feast to honor me [hold a festival; or make a pilgrimage for me]. ¹⁵ You must celebrate the ·Feast [Festival] of Unleavened Bread [34:18] in the way I commanded you. For seven days you must eat ·bread that is made without yeast [unleavened bread] at the set time during the month of Abib [13:4], the month when you came out of Egypt. No one is to ·come to worship [appear before] me ·without bringing an offering [empty-handed].

¹⁶ “You must celebrate the ·Feast [Festival] of Harvest [^Ccalled Feast of Weeks in 34:22; later called Pentecost]. Offer to God the first things you harvest from the crops you planted in your fields.

“You must celebrate the ·Feast [Festival] of Ingathering [^Clater called Feast of Shelters or Booths; Lev. 23:33–36] in the fall, when you gather all the crops from your fields.

¹⁷ “So three times during every year all your males must come ·to worship [^Lbefore] the Lord God.

¹⁶ All your men must ·come [^Lappear] before the Lord three times a year to the place he will choose [v. 2; 12:4–7]. They must come at these times: the ·Feast [Festival] of Unleavened Bread [^Canother name for Passover], the ·Feast [Festival] of Weeks, and the ·Feast [Festival] of ·Shelters [Booths; Tabernacles]. No man should come before the Lord ·without a gift [empty-handed].