Text: Deuteronomy 16:16-17
OT Text Referred to: Exodus 23:14-17
Subject: three pilgrimage festivals restated
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: Exodus 23:14-17 prescribes Israel's three annual pilgrimage festivals (שָׁלֹשׁ רְגָלִים, shalosh regalim): Unleavened Bread, Harvest (Weeks), and Ingathering (Booths). Deuteronomy 16:16-17 restates the same triad with key additions: worship must be centralized at "the place the LORD your God will choose," each man must bring a gift proportional to the blessing he has received, and no one may appear "empty-handed" (רֵיקָם, reqam). Both texts share the requirement that "all your males" must appear before the LORD, but Deuteronomy shapes the festivals around the centralized sanctuary and ties offering size to individual prosperity, adapting the earlier legislation for settled agricultural life in the land.