Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'commanded' occurs 741 times in the standard works.

180 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'commanded' in the standard works and contain 24.3% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 78 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ether 3:28-4:5 (7 in 6 verses)

Mosiah 18:19-24 (6 in 6 verses)

D&C 132:34-37 (5 in 4 verses)

3 Ne. 20:1-5 (5 in 5 verses)

2 Ne. 26:26-28 (4 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 23:13-24:1 (4 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 18:1-4 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Sam. 13:13-14 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 13:28-29 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 11:10-11 (3 in 2 verses)

Jer. 7:22-23 (3 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 8:13-14 (3 in 2 verses)

Hel. 14:9-10 (3 in 2 verses)

Lev. 7:36-38 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 8:34-36 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 9:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

Deut. 5:32-6:1 (3 in 3 verses)

Josh. 4:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 2:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 5:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

Num. 15:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 34:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 36:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 11:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 22:2 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 21:2 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 21:8 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 5:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 20:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 29:9 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 18:25 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 26:12 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 18:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 3:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 39:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 39:42-43 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 8:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 2:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 27:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 29:40-30:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 1:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 4:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)


Deut. 5:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

 5:15 And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.

 5:16 Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.




Deut. 6:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 26:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 1:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 16:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 21:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 13:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 3:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 6:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 8:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 17:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 21:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 5:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 17:49-50 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 19:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 1:18-2:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 2:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 3:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 12:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 15:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 19:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Morm. 7:10-8:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 2:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 46:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 97:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 104:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 124:38-39 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 1:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 5:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-H 1:49-50 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-H 1:70-71 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 381 4 385
Gen. 18 0 18
Ex. 44 0 44
Lev. 27 0 27
Num. 41 0 41
Deut. 39 0 39
Josh. 34 0 34
Judg. 6 0 6
Ruth 1 0 1
1 Sam. 9 0 9
2 Sam. 11 0 11
1 Kgs. 12 0 12
2 Kgs. 16 0 16
1 Chr. 14 0 14
2 Chr. 17 0 17
Ezra 6 0 6
Neh. 6 3 9
Esth. 10 0 10
Job 2 0 2
Ps. 12 0 12
Isa. 4 0 4
Jer. 28 1 29
Lam. 2 0 2
Ezek. 6 0 6
Dan. 13 0 13
Amos 1 0 1
Zech. 1 0 1
Mal. 1 0 1
NT 62 0 62
BM 191 0 191
DC 84 0 84
PGP 23 0 23
TOTAL 741 4 745

Deut. 1:18
And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do.

Deut. 1:19
And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.

Deut. 1:41
Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the Lord, we will go up and fight, according to all that the Lord our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill.

Deut. 3:18
And I commanded you at that time, saying, The Lord your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war.

Deut. 3:21
And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Thine eyes have seen all that the Lord your God hath done unto these two kings: so shall the Lord do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest.

Deut. 4:5
Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the Lord my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.

Deut. 4:13
And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.

Deut. 4:14
And the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.

Deut. 5:12
Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.

Deut. 5:15
And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.

Deut. 5:16
Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Deut. 5:32
Ye shall observe to do therefore as the Lord your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

Deut. 5:33
Ye shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.

Deut. 6:1
Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:

Deut. 6:17
Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.

Deut. 6:20
And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded you?

Deut. 6:24
And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.

Deut. 6:25
And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.

Deut. 9:12
And the Lord said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.

Deut. 9:16
And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the Lord had commanded you.

Deut. 10:5
And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the Lord commanded me.

Deut. 12:21
If the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the Lord hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.

Deut. 13:5
And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the Lord thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.

Deut. 17:3
And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;

Deut. 18:20
But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.

Deut. 20:17
But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee:

Deut. 24:8
Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do.

Deut. 26:13
Then thou shalt say before the Lord thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them:

Deut. 26:14
I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the Lord my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.

Deut. 26:16
This day the Lord thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.

Deut. 27:1
And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day.

Deut. 28:45
Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:

Deut. 29:1
These are the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

Deut. 31:5
And the Lord shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you.

Deut. 31:10
And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,

Deut. 31:25
That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying,

Deut. 31:29
For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.

Deut. 33:4
Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.

Deut. 34:9
And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the Lord commanded Moses.