^34:22“You must observe⁴⁸ the Feast of Weeks—the firstfruits of the harvest of wheat—and the Feast of Ingathering at the end⁴⁹ of the year. ^34:23At three times⁵⁰ in the year all your men⁵¹ must appear before the Lord God,⁵² the God of Israel.

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Footnotes

48 The imperfect tense means “you will do”; it is followed by the preposition with a suffix to express the ethical dative to stress the subject.
49 The expression is “the turn of the year,” which is parallel to “the going out of the year,” and means the end of the agricultural season.
50 “Three times” is an adverbial accusative.
51 Heb “all your males.”
52 Here the divine name reads in Hebrew הָאָדֹן יְהוָה (ha’adon yéhvah), which if rendered according to the traditional scheme of “Lord” for “Yahweh” would result in “Lord Lord.” A number of English versions therefore render this phrase “Lord God,” and that convention has been followed here. The title “Lord” is included here before the divine name (translated “God” here; see Exod 23:17), perhaps to form a contrast with Baal (which means “lord” as well) and to show the sovereignty of Yahweh. But the distinct designation “the God of Israel” is certainly the point of the renewed covenant relationship.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

You shall observe the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year’s end. Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“Celebrate the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering at the turn of the year. Three times a year all your men are to appear before the Sovereign Lord, the God of Israel.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

“Observe the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering at the turn of the agricultural year. Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.

NLTNew Living Translation

“You must celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the first crop of the wheat harvest, and celebrate the Festival of the Final Harvest at the end of the harvest season. Three times each year every man in Israel must appear before the Sovereign, the Lord, the God of Israel.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And you yourself will observe the Feast of Weeks—the firstfruits of the wheat harvest—and the Feast of Harvest Gathering at the turn of the year. Three times in the year all your males will appear before the Lord, Yahweh, the God of Israel,

KJV 1900King James Version

And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end. Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.

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