Three times in a year. — So Exodus 23:17. And in Exodus 34:23-24 a promise is added that their land should be safe in their absence.
Related Commentaries of Deuteronomy 16:16
Deuteronomy 16:16
16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty: