Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'read' occurs 131 times in the standard works.

59 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'read' in the standard works and contain 45% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 24 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Ne. 1:11-14 (5 in 4 verses)

2 Ne. 27:18-22 (5 in 5 verses)

2 Ne. 27:20-24 (5 in 5 verses)

Mosiah 25:5-6 (4 in 2 verses)

Jer. 36:13-15 (4 in 3 verses)

Col. 4:16 (3 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 19:22-23 (3 in 2 verses)

Dan. 5:15-17 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 22:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 36:6 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 27:11 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 27:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Moro. 10:3 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 138:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 8:34-35 (2 in 2 verses)


Isa. 29:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

 29:11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:

 29:12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.




Dan. 5:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 6:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 1:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 8:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Morm. 9:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 42 646 688
Gen. 0 41 41
Ex. 1 71 72
Lev. 0 42 42
Num. 0 21 21
Deut. 2 25 27
Josh. 2 5 7
Judg. 0 14 14
Ruth 0 3 3
1 Sam. 0 25 25
2 Sam. 0 19 19
1 Kgs. 0 34 34
2 Kgs. 6 12 18
1 Chr. 0 12 12
2 Chr. 3 25 28
Ezra 2 5 7
Neh. 5 10 15
Esth. 1 2 3
Job 0 30 30
Ps. 0 30 30
Prov. 0 18 18
Eccl. 0 9 9
Song. 0 1 1
Isa. 4 49 53
Jer. 11 19 30
Lam. 0 7 7
Ezek. 0 71 71
Dan. 5 8 13
Hosea 0 8 8
Joel 0 1 1
Amos 0 6 6
Obad. 0 1 1
Micah 0 5 5
Nahum 0 1 1
Hab. 0 4 4
Hag. 0 1 1
Zech. 0 5 5
Mal. 0 6 6
NT 28 176 204
BM 52 96 148
DC 7 41 48
PGP 2 15 17
TOTAL 131 974 1105

Isa. 1:12
When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?

Isa. 1:15
And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

Isa. 3:1
For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,

Isa. 3:7
In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.

Isa. 4:1
And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.

Isa. 7:25
And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.

Isa. 8:8
And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

Isa. 8:13
Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

Isa. 10:6
I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

Isa. 14:11
Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.

Isa. 14:25
That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.

Isa. 16:10
And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.

Isa. 19:8
The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

Isa. 21:14
The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.

Isa. 22:5
For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord God of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.

Isa. 25:7
And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations.

Isa. 25:11
And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.

Isa. 26:6
The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.

Isa. 27:13
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

Isa. 28:28
Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.

Isa. 29:11
And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:

Isa. 29:12
And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.

Isa. 30:13
Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.

Isa. 30:20
And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:

Isa. 30:23
Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.

Isa. 32:4
The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

Isa. 33:16
He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.

Isa. 33:23
Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.

Isa. 34:16
Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.

Isa. 36:17
Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

Isa. 37:14
And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord.

Isa. 38:20
The Lord was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the Lord.

Isa. 40:19
The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.

Isa. 40:22
It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

Isa. 41:7
So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.

Isa. 41:25
I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon mortar, and as the potter treadeth clay.

Isa. 42:5
Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:

Isa. 44:15
Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.

Isa. 44:19
And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?

Isa. 44:24
Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;

Isa. 51:13
And forgettest the Lord thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?

Isa. 51:14
The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.

Isa. 55:2
Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Isa. 55:10
For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:

Isa. 58:5
Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?

Isa. 58:7
Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

Isa. 63:2
Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?

Isa. 63:3
I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.

Isa. 63:6
And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.

Isa. 65:2
I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;