Three times a year Solomon used to offer up burnt offerings and sacrifices of well-being on the altar that he built for the Lord, offering incense before the Lord. So he completed the house.
Exodus 23:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 “Three times in the year you shall hold a festival for me. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to Me. American Standard Version (1901) Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. Common English Bible You should observe a festival for me three times a year. Catholic Public Domain Version Three times in each year, you shall celebrate feasts to me. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Three times every year you shall celebrate feasts to me. |
Three times a year Solomon used to offer up burnt offerings and sacrifices of well-being on the altar that he built for the Lord, offering incense before the Lord. So he completed the house.
as the duty of each day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses for the Sabbaths, the new moons, and the three annual festivals: the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Booths.
Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord God.
“You shall keep the Festival of Unleavened Bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month of Abib, for in the month of Abib you came out from Egypt.
“When the people of the land come before the Lord at the appointed festivals, whoever enters by the north gate to worship shall go out by the south gate, and whoever enters by the south gate shall go out by the north gate: they shall not return by way of the gate by which they entered but shall go out straight ahead.
You shall count until the day after the seventh Sabbath, fifty days; then you shall present an offering of new grain to the Lord.
“Speak to the Israelites, saying: On the fifteenth day of this seventh month and lasting seven days, there shall be the Festival of Booths to the Lord.
“These are the appointed festivals of the Lord, the holy convocations, that you shall celebrate at the time appointed for them.
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, there shall be a Passover offering to the Lord,
“Observe the month of Abib by keeping the Passover to the Lord your God, for in the month of Abib the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
“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. They shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed;
Now this man used to go up year by year from his town to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts at Shiloh, where the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests of the Lord.