Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'wast' occurs 88 times in the standard works.

30 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'wast' in the standard works and contain 34.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 12 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ezek. 16:4-13 (10 in 10 verses)

Ezek. 28:13-15 (4 in 3 verses)

1 Sam. 15:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 16:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 26:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 38:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 4:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Abr. 3:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 16:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 33:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 58 90 148
NT 8 5 13
BM 12 18 30
DC 4 9 13
PGP 6 1 7
Moses 4 0 4
Abr. 2 0 2
JS-H 0 1 1
TOTAL 88 123 211

Moses 4:17
And I, the Lord God, said unto Adam: Who told thee thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat, if so thou shouldst surely die?

Moses 4:25
By the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou shalt return unto the ground-- for thou shalt surely die-- for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou wast, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Moses 5:24
For from this time forth thou shalt be the father of his lies; thou shalt be called Perdition; for thou wast also before the world.

Abr. 3:23
And God saw these souls that they were good, and he stood in the midst of them, and he said: These I will make my rulers; for he stood among those that were spirits, and he saw that they were good; and he said unto me: Abraham, thou art one of them; thou wast chosen before thou wast born.

JS-H 1:39
He also quoted the next verse differently: And he shall plant in the hearts of the children the promises made to the fathers, and the hearts of the children shall turn to their fathers. If it were not so, the whole earth would be utterly wasted at his coming.