Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'holy' occurs 1093 times in the standard works.

449 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'holy' in the standard works and contain 41.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 184 minutes to read the entire list.

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Alma 13:1-12 (13 in 12 verses)

Ezek. 45:1-7 (8 in 7 verses)

2 Ne. 31:7-14 (8 in 8 verses)

Lev. 6:25-7:1 (7 in 7 verses)

Lev. 22:10-16 (7 in 7 verses)

2 Ne. 9:46-52 (7 in 7 verses)

Alma 31:15-21 (7 in 7 verses)

Ezek. 42:13-14 (6 in 2 verses)

Lev. 22:2-7 (6 in 6 verses)

Lev. 21:6-8 (5 in 3 verses)

Ex. 30:29-32 (5 in 4 verses)

Ezek. 48:18-21 (5 in 4 verses)

D&C 20:25-28 (5 in 4 verses)

1 Pet. 1:12-16 (5 in 5 verses)

2 Ne. 9:15-19 (5 in 5 verses)

Lev. 10:17-18 (4 in 2 verses)

Lev. 11:44-45 (4 in 2 verses)

Num. 18:9-10 (4 in 2 verses)

Lev. 16:2-4 (4 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 9:39-41 (4 in 3 verses)

Alma 5:52-54 (4 in 3 verses)

D&C 124:44-46 (4 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 9:23-26 (4 in 4 verses)

2 Ne. 31:21-32:3 (4 in 4 verses)

2 Ne. 32:2-5 (4 in 4 verses)

D&C 104:65-68 (4 in 4 verses)

D&C 109:12-15 (4 in 4 verses)

Isa. 6:3 (3 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 39:7 (3 in 1 verse)

Rom. 11:16 (3 in 1 verse)

Rev. 4:8 (3 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 16:3 (3 in 1 verse)

D&C 115:7 (3 in 1 verse)

D&C 124:39 (3 in 1 verse)

Ex. 26:33-34 (3 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 20:39-40 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 6:9-10 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 33:1-2 (3 in 2 verses)

W of M 1:16-17 (3 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 11:35-36 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 20:35-36 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 130:22-23 (3 in 2 verses)

Moses 5:58-59 (3 in 2 verses)

Ex. 29:29-31 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 30:35-37 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 35:19-21 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 6:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 23:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 23:35-37 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Chr. 35:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Neh. 8:9-11 (3 in 3 verses)

Ps. 89:18-20 (3 in 3 verses)

Isa. 57:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 36:20-22 (3 in 3 verses)

Dan. 11:28-30 (3 in 3 verses)

Acts 8:17-19 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 10:17-19 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 5:44-46 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 10:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 13:26-28 (3 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 19:20-22 (3 in 3 verses)

Ether 13:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Moro. 6:9-7:2 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 119:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 132:26-28 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 12:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 28:38 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 29:37 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 30:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 39:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 39:41 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 7:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 14:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 19:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 20:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 21:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 24:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezra 8:28 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 99:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 49:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 58:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 22:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 44:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 9:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Joel 3:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Hag. 2:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Luke 1:35 (2 in 1 verse)

Acts 19:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Rom. 7:12 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Pet. 1:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Jude 1:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 22:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 6:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 15:7 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 9:20 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 19:13 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 28:11 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 20:11 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 21:2 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 60:7 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 121:26 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 132:7 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:73 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 29:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 31:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 31:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 40:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 5:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 10:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 16:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)


Lev. 16:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

 16:23 And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the holy place, and shall leave them there:

 16:24 And he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt offering, and the burnt offering of the people, and make an atonement for himself, and for the people.




Lev. 16:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 23:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 23:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 27:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 27:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 4:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 28:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 30:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 43:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 63:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 64:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 43:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 4:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 4:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Zech. 2:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 12:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 2:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 4:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 10:44-45 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 11:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Thes. 1:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Thes. 5:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Heb. 9:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 19:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 9:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 28:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 31:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 7:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Jarom 1:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Omni 1:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 36:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 39:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 12:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 20:35-36 (2 in 2 verses)

Morm. 9:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 2:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 8:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 10:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 33:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 35:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 46:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 49:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 68:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 76:52-53 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 78:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 124:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 132:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 133:55-56 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 430 2 432
Ex. 55 0 55
Lev. 94 1 95
Num. 29 0 29
Deut. 9 0 9
Josh. 2 0 2
1 Sam. 3 0 3
1 Kgs. 6 0 6
2 Kgs. 2 0 2
1 Chr. 9 0 9
2 Chr. 17 0 17
Ezra 5 0 5
Neh. 10 0 10
Job 1 0 1
Ps. 39 1 40
Prov. 3 0 3
Eccl. 1 0 1
Isa. 56 0 56
Jer. 5 0 5
Ezek. 49 0 49
Dan. 17 0 17
Hosea 1 0 1
Joel 3 0 3
Amos 1 0 1
Obad. 1 0 1
Jonah 2 0 2
Micah 1 0 1
Hab. 3 0 3
Zeph. 1 0 1
Hag. 2 0 2
Zech. 3 0 3
NT 181 4 185
BM 295 5 300
DC 165 3 168
PGP 22 0 22
TOTAL 1093 14 1107

Lev. 2:3
And the remnant of the meat offering shall be Aaron's and his sons': it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the Lord made by fire.

Lev. 2:10
And that which is left of the meat offering shall be Aaron's and his sons': it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the Lord made by fire.

Lev. 5:15
If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the Lord; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the Lord a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering:

Lev. 5:16
And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in the holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him.

Lev. 6:16
And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it.

Lev. 6:17
It shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it unto them for their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as is the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.

Lev. 6:18
All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations concerning the offerings of the Lord made by fire: every one that toucheth them shall be holy.

Lev. 6:25
Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the Lord: it is most holy.

Lev. 6:26
The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation.

Lev. 6:27
Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy: and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy place.

Lev. 6:29
All the males among the priests shall eat thereof: it is most holy.

Lev. 6:30
And no sin offering, whereof any of the blood is brought into the tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile withal in the holy place, shall be eaten: it shall be burnt in the fire.

Lev. 7:1
Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most holy.

Lev. 7:6
Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy.

Lev. 8:9
And he put the mitre upon his head; also upon the mitre, even upon his forefront, did he put the golden plate, the holy crown; as the Lord commanded Moses.

Lev. 10:10
And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;

Lev. 10:12
And Moses spake unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons that were left, Take the meat offering that remaineth of the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar: for it is most holy:

Lev. 10:13
And ye shall eat it in the holy place, because it is thy due, and thy sons' due, of the sacrifices of the Lord made by fire: for so I am commanded.

Lev. 10:17
Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin offering in the holy place, seeing it is most holy, and God hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the Lord?

Lev. 10:18
Behold, the blood of it was not brought in within the holy place: ye should indeed have eaten it in the holy place, as I commanded.

Lev. 11:44
For I am the Lord your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Lev. 11:45
For I am the Lord that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

Lev. 14:13
And he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place: for as the sin offering is the priest's, so is the trespass offering: it is most holy:

Lev. 16:2
And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the veil before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.

Lev. 16:3
Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.

Lev. 16:4
He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on.

Lev. 16:16
And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness.

Lev. 16:17
And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he come out, and have made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel.

Lev. 16:20
And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat:

Lev. 16:23
And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the holy place, and shall leave them there:

Lev. 16:24
And he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt offering, and the burnt offering of the people, and make an atonement for himself, and for the people.

Lev. 16:27
And the bullock for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall one carry forth without the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung.

Lev. 16:32
And the priest, whom he shall anoint, and whom he shall consecrate to minister in the priest's office in his father's stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen clothes, even the holy garments:

Lev. 16:33
And he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for the altar, and he shall make an atonement for the priests, and for all the people of the congregation.

Lev. 19:2
Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy.

Lev. 19:24
But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise the Lord withal.

Lev. 20:3
And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.

Lev. 20:7
Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the Lord your God.

Lev. 20:26
And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the Lord am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.

Lev. 21:6
They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.

Lev. 21:7
They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.

Lev. 21:8
Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the Lord, which sanctify you, am holy.

Lev. 21:22
He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.

Lev. 22:2
Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name in those things which they hallow unto me: I am the Lord.

Lev. 22:3
Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the Lord, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the Lord.

Lev. 22:4
What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him;

Lev. 22:6
The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water.

Lev. 22:7
And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it is his food.

Lev. 22:10
There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.

Lev. 22:12
If the priest's daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.

Lev. 22:14
And if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give it unto the priest with the holy thing.

Lev. 22:15
And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer unto the Lord;

Lev. 22:16
Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the Lord do sanctify them.

Lev. 22:32
Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the Lord which hallow you,

Lev. 23:2
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.

Lev. 23:3
Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings.

Lev. 23:4
These are the feasts of the Lord, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.

Lev. 23:7
In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

Lev. 23:8
But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

Lev. 23:20
And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the Lord, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the Lord for the priest.

Lev. 23:21
And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

Lev. 23:24
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.

Lev. 23:27
Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord.

Lev. 23:35
On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

Lev. 23:36
Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.

Lev. 23:37
These are the feasts of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:

Lev. 24:9
And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'; and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the Lord made by fire by a perpetual statute.

Lev. 25:12
For it is the jubilee; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.

Lev. 27:9
And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the Lord, all that any man giveth of such unto the Lord shall be holy.

Lev. 27:10
He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.

Lev. 27:14
And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the Lord, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.

Lev. 27:21
But the field, when it goeth out in the jubilee, shall be holy unto the Lord, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's.

Lev. 27:23
Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of the jubilee: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the Lord.

Lev. 27:28
Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the Lord of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the Lord.

Lev. 27:30
And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord's: it is holy unto the Lord.

Lev. 27:32
And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the Lord.

Lev. 27:33
He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he change it at all, then both it and the change thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.