Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord God.
To which the tribes went up, even the tribes of the Lord, for a witness to Israel, to give praise to the name of the Lord.
My soul is dry for need of God, the living God; when may I come and see the face of God?
My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?
They go from strength to strength; every one of them comes before God in Zion.
Three times in the year you are to keep a feast to me.
Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord, the God of Israel.
At whose request do you come before me, making my house unclean with your feet?
And when he was twelve years old, they went up, as their way was, to the feast;
But let your hearts be turned to the place which will be marked out by the Lord your God, among your tribes, to put his name there;
Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord your God in the place named by him; at the feast of unleavened bread, the feast of weeks, and the feast of tents: and they are not to come before the Lord with nothing in their hands;
When all Israel has come before the Lord your God in the place named by him, let a reading be given of this law in the hearing of all Israel.