Three times a year all your men are to appear before the Sovereign Lord, the God of Israel. The three pilgrimage feast requirement — appearing before the Sovereign Lord three times annually — is the third reissuance of this command across the covenant sections. The triple repetition communicates the absolute nature of the requirement. The appearing before the Lord is not optional religious attendance but covenant obligation — the community that is the Lord's people appears before the Lord their God. Psalm 84:7 says they go from strength to strength, till each appears before God in Zion — the pilgrimage itself is spiritually formative.

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