Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'four' occurs 418 times in the standard works.

166 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'four' in the standard works and contain 39.7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 67 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Chr. 27:7-15 (9 in 9 verses)

Ezek. 1:5-10 (8 in 6 verses)

D&C 77:2-9 (8 in 8 verses)

Ezek. 43:14-20 (7 in 7 verses)

Rev. 7:1-4 (5 in 4 verses)

1 Kgs. 7:30-34 (5 in 5 verses)

Ezek. 48:16 (4 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 46:21-23 (4 in 3 verses)

Num. 2:6-9 (4 in 4 verses)

Ezek. 1:15-18 (4 in 4 verses)

Ezek. 10:9-12 (4 in 4 verses)

Ex. 25:26 (3 in 1 verse)

Ex. 37:13 (3 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 23:4-5 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 26:17-18 (3 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 40:41-42 (3 in 2 verses)

Rev. 5:14-6:1 (3 in 2 verses)

Gen. 11:15-17 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 27:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

Num. 1:29-31 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 48:32-34 (3 in 3 verses)

Rev. 4:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

Rev. 5:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

Rev. 9:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

Rev. 14:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 107:44-46 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 135:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 25:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 26:32 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 27:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 36:36 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 37:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 38:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 38:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 26:43 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 7:27 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 18:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezra 2:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 49:36 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 10:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 7:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 7:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 8:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 8:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 19:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 23:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 12:40-41 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 11:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 7:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 27:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 27:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezra 1:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 7:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

4 Ne. 1:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 2:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 274 163 437
NT 54 23 77
BM 48 31 79
DC 32 17 49
PGP 10 7 17
Moses 4 2 6
Abr. 1 1 2
JS-M 2 0 2
JS-H 3 3 6
A of F 0 1 1
TOTAL 418 241 659

Moses 3:10
And I, the Lord God, caused a river to go out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

Moses 7:62
And righteousness will I send down out of heaven; and truth will I send forth out of the earth, to bear testimony of mine Only Begotten; his resurrection from the dead; yea, and also the resurrection of all men; and righteousness and truth will I cause to sweep the earth as with a flood, to gather out mine elect from the four quarters of the earth, unto a place which I shall prepare, an Holy City, that my people may gird up their loins, and be looking forth for the time of my coming; for there shall be my tabernacle, and it shall be called Zion, a New Jerusalem.

Moses 8:1
And all the days of Enoch were four hundred and thirty years.

Moses 8:12
And Noah was four hundred and fifty years old, and begat Japheth; and forty-two years afterward he begat Shem of her who was the mother of Japheth, and when he was five hundred years old he begat Ham.

Abr. 5:10
There was a river running out of Eden, to water the garden, and from thence it was parted and became into four heads.

JS-M 1:27
And now I show unto you a parable. Behold, wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together; so likewise shall mine elect be gathered from the four quarters of the earth.

JS-M 1:37
And whoso treasureth up my word, shall not be deceived, for the Son of Man shall come, and he shall send his angels before him with the great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together the remainder of his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

JS-H 1:3
I was born in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five, on the twenty-third day of December, in the town of Sharon, Windsor county, State of Vermont ... My father, Joseph Smith, Sen., left the State of Vermont, and moved to Palmyra, Ontario (now Wayne) county, in the State of New York, when I was in my tenth year, or thereabouts. In about four years after my father's arrival in Palmyra, he moved with his family into Manchester in the same county of Ontario--

JS-H 1:7
I was at this time in my fifteenth year. My father's family was proselyted to the Presbyterian faith, and four of them joined that church, namely, my mother, Lucy; my brothers Hyrum and Samuel Harrison; and my sister Sophronia.

JS-H 1:53
I made an attempt to take them out, but was forbidden by the messenger, and was again informed that the time for bringing them forth had not yet arrived, neither would it, until four years from that time; but he told me that I should come to that place precisely in one year from that time, and that he would there meet with me, and that I should continue to do so until the time should come for obtaining the plates.