Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'unclean' occurs 220 times in the standard works.

130 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'unclean' in the standard works and contain 59.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 56 minutes to read the entire list.

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Lev. 11:24-12:5 (30 in 29 verses)

Lev. 15:2-27 (26 in 26 verses)


Num. 19:7-22 (16 in 16 verses)

 19:7 Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even.

 19:8 And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.

 19:9 And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin.

 19:10 And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever.

 19:11 He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.

 19:12 He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.

 19:13 Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the Lord; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.

 19:14 This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.

 19:15 And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean.

 19:16 And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

 19:17 And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:

 19:18 And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:

 19:19 And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.

 19:20 But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the Lord: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.

 19:21 And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even.

 19:22 And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.




Lev. 5:2 (5 in 1 verse)

Lev. 13:44-46 (5 in 3 verses)

Lev. 11:4-8 (5 in 5 verses)

Lev. 13:11-15 (5 in 5 verses)

Hag. 2:13-14 (4 in 2 verses)

Lev. 7:19-21 (4 in 3 verses)

Lev. 20:25 (3 in 1 verse)

Rom. 14:14 (3 in 1 verse)

Lev. 14:44-46 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 22:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

Isa. 6:5 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 10:21 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 11:31 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 16:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 40:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 14:40-41 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 14:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 1:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 94:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 162 30 192
Lev. 110 19 129
Num. 19 2 21
Deut. 9 2 11
Josh. 1 0 1
Judg. 3 0 3
2 Sam. 0 1 1
2 Chr. 1 1 2
Ezra 1 1 2
Job 2 0 2
Eccl. 1 0 1
Isa. 6 0 6
Lam. 1 0 1
Ezek. 2 3 5
Hosea 1 0 1
Hag. 4 0 4
Zech. 1 1 2
NT 32 11 43
BM 19 3 22
DC 6 1 7
PGP 1 0 1
TOTAL 220 45 265

Num. 5:19
And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:

Num. 6:7
He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head.

Num. 9:10
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the Lord.

Num. 18:15
Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring unto the Lord, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem.

Num. 19:7
Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even.

Num. 19:8
And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.

Num. 19:10
And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever.

Num. 19:11
He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.

Num. 19:13
Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the Lord; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.

Num. 19:14
This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.

Num. 19:15
And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean.

Num. 19:16
And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

Num. 19:17
And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:

Num. 19:19
And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.

Num. 19:20
But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the Lord: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.

Num. 19:21
And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even.

Num. 19:22
And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.