▼ 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.

▼ 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.

▼ This is an adverbial accusative of time.

▼ Heb “in it.”

▼ The verb is a Niphal imperfect; the nuance of permission works well here – no one is permitted to appear before God empty (Heb “and they will not appear before me empty”).

▼ The words “you are also to observe” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

▼ An infinitive construct with a preposition and a pronominal suffix is used to make a temporal clause: “in the going in of the year.” The word “year” is the subjective genitive, the subject of the clause.

▼ An infinitive construct with a preposition and a pronominal suffix is used to make a temporal clause: “in the ingathering of you.”

▼ Heb “gathered in your labors.” This is a metonymy of cause put for the effect. “Labors” are not gathered in, but what the labors produced – the harvest.

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

▼ Here the divine Name reads in Hebrew הָאָדֹן יְהוָה (ha’adon y^ehvah), 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.