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observe

Meaning of “observe”

Sense 1: To watch, notice, behold, or take heed of. Sense 2: To keep, carefully perform, or comply with.

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55 occurrences52 verses20 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Exodus 12:17

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Exodus 12:17
And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.
2 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Exodus 12:17 · retained source text

And yee shall obserue the feast of vnleauened bread: for in this selfe same day haue I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt; therefore shall ye obserue this day in your generations, by an ordinance for euer.

Exodus 12:24
And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Exodus 12:24 · retained source text

And ye shall obserue this thing for an ordinance to thee, and to thy sonnes for euer.

Exodus 31:16
Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Exodus 31:16 · retained source text

Wherefore the children of Israel shall keepe the Sabbath, to obserue the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetuall couenant.

Exodus 34:11
observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Exodus 34:11 · retained source text

Obserue thou that which I command thee this day: Behold, I driue out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hiuite, and the Iebusite.

Exodus 34:22
¶ And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Exodus 34:22 · retained source text

¶ And thou shalt obserue the feast of weekes, of the first fruits of wheat haruest, and the feast of ingathering at the yeeres end.

1611 marginal noteHebr. reuolution of the yeere.

1611 marginal noteChap. 23.16.

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