^9 (A)“When the people of the land ^(B)come before the Lord at the appointed feasts, he who enters by the north gate to worship shall go out by the south gate, and he who enters by the south gate shall go out by the north gate: no one shall return by way of the gate by which he entered, but each shall go out straight ahead.

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

²⁰ For if, ^(A)after they have escaped the defilements of the world ^(B)through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, ^(C)the last state has become worse for them than the first. ²¹ For ^(D)it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from ^(E)the holy commandment delivered to them.

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

^14 (A)“Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me. ^15 (B)You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of ^(C)Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. ^(D)None shall appear before me empty-handed. ¹⁶ You shall keep ^(E)the Feast of Harvest, of the firstfruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall keep the ^(F)Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor. ^17 (G)Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God.

¹³ Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: ^(A)forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, ¹⁴ I press on toward the goal for ^(B)the prize of the upward ^(C)call of God in Christ Jesus.

^4 (A)“Remember ^(B)the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules^[a] that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.