He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud. They kept his testimonies, the statute that he gave them.

He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.

The Sumerians kept records of business deals using tiny, clay sculptures of goats, donkeys, and oxen.

I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.

I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world thine they were, and thou gavest them me and they have kept thy word.

His thought was, maybe they've preserved brain activities and they practice them in development that are really, really important to them to negotiate status and to win, which is something like strategic thinking during competition.

who said of his father, and of his mother, 'I have not seen him ' Neither did he acknowledge his brothers, Nor did he know his own children For they have observed your word, and keep your covenant.

Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.

Remember the word that I said to you 'A servant is not greater than his lord.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.

Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

The priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread if only the young men have kept themselves from women.

And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.

neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from off the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them, even all the law and the statutes and the ordinances given by Moses.

Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers so that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.

neither will I cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out of the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.

Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.

His thought was, maybe they've preserved brain activities and they practice them in development that are really, really important to them to negotiate status and to win, which is something like strategic thinking during competition.