making the scriptures plain

The garden of Eden

Gen.2.15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

He drove out the man

Gen.3.24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

Where is Abel thy brother?

Gen.4.2 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
Gen.4.9 And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?

Keep them alive

Gen.6.19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.

Gen.6.20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

Of fowls also of the air

Gen.7.3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

Thou shalt keep my covenant

Gen.17.9 And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.
Gen.17.10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.

Abraham obeyed my voice

Gen.18.19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

Abraham obeyed my voice

Gen.26.5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

I will not leave thee

Gen.28.15 And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
Gen.28.20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,

Rachel came with her father's sheep

Gen.29.9 And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them.

I will again feed and keep thy flock

Gen.30.31 And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock.

I have enough

Gen.33.9 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself.

Thou art his wife

Gen.39.9 There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

Favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison

Gen.39.21 But the LORD was with Joseph, and showed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

Gen.39.22 And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it.
Gen.39.23 The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand; because the LORD was with him, and that which he did, the LORD made it to prosper.

Lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh

Gen.41.35 And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.

Fetch your brother

Gen.42.16 Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.

Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law

Exo.3.1 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.

Egyptians keep in bondage

Exo.6.5 And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.

This day shall be unto you for a memorial

Exo.12.6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
Exo.12.14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.

When a stranger shall sojourn with thee

Exo.12.25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.
Exo.12.47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
Exo.12.48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.

The LORD shall bring thee into the land

Exo.13.5 And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.

Exo.13.10 Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.

I will put none of these diseases upon thee

Exo.15.26 And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.

I have fed you in the wilderness

Exo.16.23 And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.

Exo.16.28 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?
Exo.16.32 And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.
Exo.16.33 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations.
Exo.16.34 As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.

A peculiar treasure unto me

Exo.19.5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:

Remember the sabbath day

Exo.20.6 And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Exo.20.8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

If men strive together

Exo.21.18 And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
Exo.21.29 But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.
Exo.21.36 Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own.

An ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep

Exo.22.7 If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, let him pay double.
Exo.22.10 If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it:

Behold, I send an Angel before thee

Exo.23.7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
Exo.23.14 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
Exo.23.15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)
Exo.23.20 Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.

Ye shall keep the sabbath

Exo.31.13 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.

Exo.31.14 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Exo.31.16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

Keeping mercy for thousands

Exo.34.7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

Exo.34.18 The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.