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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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362 occurrences354 verses52 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 2:15

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Numbers 6:24

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The Lord bless thee, and keep thee:

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1611 witness · Numbers 6:24 · retained source text

The LORD blesse thee, and keepe thee:

Numbers 8:26

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But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charge.

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But shall minister with their brethren in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, to keepe the charge, and shall doe no seruice: thus shalt thou doe vnto the Leuites, touching their charge.

Numbers 9:2

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Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.

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1611 witness · Numbers 9:2 · retained source text

Let the children of Israel also keepe the Passeouer, at his appointed season.

1611 marginal noteExod. 12.1. &c. leuit. 23.5. chap. 28.16. deut. 16.2.

Numbers 9:3

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In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.

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1611 witness · Numbers 9:3 · retained source text

In the fourteenth day of this moneth at euen, ye shall keepe it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof shall ye keepe it.

1611 marginal noteHebr. betweene the two euenings.

Numbers 9:4

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And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.

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And Moses spake vnto the children of Israel that they should keepe the Passeouer.

Numbers 9:6

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¶ And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:

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¶ And there were certaine men who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keepe the Passeouer on that day: and they came before Moses, and before Aaron on that day.

Numbers 9:10

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Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the Lord.

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1611 witness · Numbers 9:10 · retained source text

Speake vnto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you, or of your posteritie shall be vncleane by reason of a dead body, or bee in a iourney afarre off, yet he shall keepe the Passeouer vnto the LORD.

Numbers 9:11

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The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

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The fourteenth day of the second moneth at Euen they shall keepe it, and eat it with vnleauened bread and bitter herbes.

Numbers 9:12

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They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.

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1611 witness · Numbers 9:12 · retained source text

They shall leaue none of it vnto the morning, nor breake any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the Passeouer they shall keepe it.

1611 marginal noteExod. 12.46. ioh. 19.36.

Numbers 9:13

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But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the Lord in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.

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1611 witness · Numbers 9:13 · retained source text

But the man that is cleane, and is not in a iourney, and forbeareth to keep the Passeouer, euen the same soule shall be cut off from his people, because hee brought not the offering of the LORD in his appointed season: that man shall beare his sinne.

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