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OET (OET-LV) Three times in/on/at/with_year he_will_present_himself every males_your to the_presence the_master YHWH.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
יֵרָאֶה֙ & אֶל־פְּנֵ֖י הָאָדֹ֥ן׀ יְהוָֽה׃
appear & to/towards face/surface_of the,Lord (Some words not found in UHB: three times in/on/at/with,year appear all/each/any/every males,your to/towards face/surface_of the,Lord YHWH )
Here, to appear to the face of the Lord Yahweh means to gather to worship. To the face is a metonym for Yahweh’s presence, referring to worship. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent expression or plain language. Alternate translation: “must come to worship the Lord Yahweh”
23:14-17 God’s command was that every man in Israel must appear before . . . the Lord (23:17), that is, at the Tabernacle, three times each year. While all the people were camped around the Tabernacle in the wilderness, this requirement did not create any problems. Later, when the people were dispersed throughout the land at a distance from the Tabernacle (later the Temple), it was more difficult. The stipulation seems to have been intended to keep the people from building local worship centers, which would splinter them as a people and allow for pagan influences on the worship of Yahweh. Sadly, these stipulations were not carefully carried out (see, e.g., 2 Kgs 23:21-23).
OET (OET-LV) Three times in/on/at/with_year he_will_present_himself every males_your to the_presence the_master YHWH.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.