Exodus 23:17

23:17 At ¹  three times in the year all your males will appear before the Lord God. ² 

Exodus 33:20

33:20 But he added, “You cannot see my face, for no one can ³  see me and live.” ⁴ 

Exodus 34:23

34:23 At three times ⁵  in the year all your men ⁶  must appear before the Lord God, ⁷  the God of Israel.

¹ tn Adverbial accusative of time: “three times” becomes “at three times.”

² tn Here the divine Name reads in Hebrew הָאָדֹן יְהוָה (ha’adon yÿhvah), 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.

³ tn In view of the use of the verb “can, be able to” in the first clause, this imperfect tense is given a potential nuance.

⁴ tn Gesenius notes that sometimes a negative statement takes the place of a conditional clause; here it is equal to “if a man sees me he does not live” (GKC 498 §159.gg). The other passages that teach this are Gen 32:30; Deut 4:33, 5:24, 26; Judg 6:22, 13:22, and Isa 6:5.

⁵ tn “Three times” is an adverbial accusative.

⁶ tn Heb “all your males.”

⁷ tn Here the divine name reads in Hebrew הָאָדֹן יְהוָה (ha’adon yÿhvah), 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.