Keluaran 23:14

23:14 “Three times ¹  in the year you must make a pilgrim feast ²  to me.

Keluaran 34:20

34:20 Now the firstling ³  of a donkey you may redeem with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, then break its neck. ⁴  You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons.

“No one will appear before me empty-handed. ⁵ 

[23:14]  ¹ tn The expression rendered “three times” is really “three feet,” or “three foot-beats.” The expression occurs only a few times in the Law. The expressing is an adverbial accusative.

[23:14]  ² tn This is the word תָּחֹג (takhog) from the root חָגַג (khagag); it describes a feast that was accompanied by a pilgrimage. It was first used by Moses in his appeal that Israel go three days into the desert to hold such a feast.

[34:20]  ³ tn Heb “and the one that opens [the womb of] the donkey.”

[34:20]  ⁴ sn See G. Brin, “The Firstling of Unclean Animals,” JQR 68 (1971): 1-15.

[34:20]  ⁵ tn The form is the adverb “empty.”