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keep

Meaning of “keep”

To guard, watch, protect, preserve, secure, retain, possess, hold, maintain, support, tend, manage, observe, obey, fulfil, celebrate, continue in, refrain from, or remain faithful to a person, place, trust, command, promise, way, time, or thing.

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First occurrence: Genesis 2:15

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Leviticus 23:39
Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Leviticus 23:39 · retained source text

Also in the fifteenth day of the seuenth moneth when yee haue gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keepe a feast vnto the LORD seuen dayes. On the first day shall bee a Sabbath, and on the eight day shall bee a Sabbath.

Leviticus 23:41
And ye shall keep it a feast unto the Lord seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Leviticus 23:41 · retained source text

And yee shall keepe it a feast vnto the LORD seuen dayes in the yeere: It shalbe a Statute for euer in your generations, ye shall celebrate it in the seuenth moneth.

Leviticus 25:2
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the Lord.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Leviticus 25:2 · retained source text

Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them: when yee come into the land which I giue you, then shall the land keepe a Sabbath vnto the LORD.

1611 marginal noteHebr. rest.

1611 marginal noteExod. 23.10.

Leviticus 25:18
¶ Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Leviticus 25:18 · retained source text

¶ Wherefore ye shall do my Statutes, and keepe my Iudgements, and doe them, and ye shall dwell in the land in safetie.

Leviticus 26:2
¶ Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Leviticus 26:2 · retained source text

Ye shal keepe my Sabbaths, and reuerence my Sanctuary: I am the LORD.

1611 marginal noteChap. 19.30.

Leviticus 26:3
¶ If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Leviticus 26:3 · retained source text

¶ If ye walke in my Statutes, and keepe my Commandements, and doe them;

1611 marginal noteDeut. 28.1.

Numbers 1:53
But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Numbers 1:53 · retained source text

But the Leuites shall pitch round about the Tabernacle of Testimonie, that there be no wrath vpon the Congregation of the children of Israel: and the Leuites shall keepe the charge of the Tabernacle of Testimonie.

Numbers 3:7
And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of the congregation, to do the service of the tabernacle.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Numbers 3:7 · retained source text

And they shall keepe his charge, and the charge of the whole Congregation before the Tabernacle of the Congregation, to doe the seruice of the Tabernacle.

Numbers 3:8
And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Numbers 3:8 · retained source text

And they shall keepe all the instruments of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to doe the seruice of the Tabernacle.

Numbers 3:32
And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be chief over the chief of the Levites, and have the oversight of them that keep the charge of the sanctuary.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Numbers 3:32 · retained source text

And Eleazar the sonne of Aaron the Priest, shall be chiefe ouer the chiefe of the Leuites, and haue the ouersight of them that keepe the charge of the Sanctuary.

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