Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'clean' occurs 153 times in the standard works.

65 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'clean' in the standard works and contain 42.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 27 minutes to read the entire list.

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Lev. 13:37-41 (5 in 5 verses)

Lev. 14:7-11 (5 in 5 verses)

Num. 19:9-12 (4 in 4 verses)

Num. 19:18-19 (3 in 2 verses)

John 13:10-11 (3 in 2 verses)


2 Kgs. 5:12-14 (3 in 3 verses)

 5:12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.

 5:13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?

 5:14 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.




Gen. 7:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 7:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 8:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 13:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 13:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 13:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 13:34 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 20:25 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 20:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 36:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 11:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 13:58-59 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 31:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 3:17-4:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 15:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 8:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 23:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 1:40-41 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 5:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 88:74-75 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 88:85-86 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 114 264 378
Gen. 7 0 7
Ex. 0 1 1
Lev. 46 154 200
Num. 14 27 41
Deut. 6 11 17
Josh. 3 2 5
Judg. 0 3 3
1 Sam. 2 0 2
2 Sam. 0 3 3
2 Kgs. 4 0 4
2 Chr. 1 8 9
Ezra 0 2 2
Neh. 0 3 3
Job 8 4 12
Ps. 6 6 12
Prov. 3 1 4
Eccl. 1 1 2
Isa. 6 6 12
Jer. 1 2 3
Lam. 0 1 1
Ezek. 4 18 22
Dan. 0 1 1
Hosea 0 1 1
Joel 1 2 3
Amos 0 1 1
Hag. 0 4 4
Zech. 1 2 3
NT 19 61 80
BM 6 33 39
DC 13 19 32
PGP 1 3 4
TOTAL 153 380 533

2 Kgs. 5:10
And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.

2 Kgs. 5:12
Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.

2 Kgs. 5:13
And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?

2 Kgs. 5:14
Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.