Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'family' occurs 181 times in the standard works.

105 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'family' in the standard works and contain 58% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 46 minutes to read the entire list.

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Num. 26:5-27:4 (66 in 65 verses)

Zech. 12:12-14 (6 in 3 verses)

Num. 3:27 (4 in 1 verse)

Josh. 7:14-17 (4 in 4 verses)

2 Ne. 5:6 (3 in 1 verse)

Num. 3:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 3:33 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 2:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 9:3 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 31:2 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 6:70-71 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 2:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 7:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)


1 Ne. 8:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

 8:12 And as I partook of the fruit thereof it filled my soul with exceedingly great joy; wherefore, I began to be desirous that my family should partake of it also; for I knew that it was desirable above all other fruit.

 8:13 And as I cast my eyes round about, that perhaps I might discover my family also, I beheld a river of water; and it ran along, and it was near the tree of which I was partaking the fruit.




D&C 90:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-H 1:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 122 0 122
NT 1 0 1
BM 22 0 22
1 Ne. 7 0 7
2 Ne. 5 0 5
Mosiah 2 0 2
3 Ne. 4 0 4
Morm. 1 0 1
Ether 3 0 3
DC 26 0 26
PGP 10 0 10
TOTAL 181 0 181

1 Ne. 2:2
And it came to pass that the Lord commanded my father, even in a dream, that he should take his family and depart into the wilderness.

1 Ne. 2:4
And it came to pass that he departed into the wilderness. And he left his house, and the land of his inheritance, and his gold, and his silver, and his precious things, and took nothing with him, save it were his family, and provisions, and tents, and departed into the wilderness.

1 Ne. 2:5
And he came down by the borders near the shore of the Red Sea; and he traveled in the wilderness in the borders which are nearer the Red Sea; and he did travel in the wilderness with his family, which consisted of my mother, Sariah, and my elder brothers, who were Laman, Lemuel, and Sam.

1 Ne. 7:1
And now I would that ye might know, that after my father, Lehi, had made an end of prophesying concerning his seed, it came to pass that the Lord spake unto him again, saying that it was not meet for him, Lehi, that he should take his family into the wilderness alone; but that his sons should take daughters to wife, that they might raise up seed unto the Lord in the land of promise.

1 Ne. 7:2
And it came to pass that the Lord commanded him that I, Nephi, and my brethren, should again return unto the land of Jerusalem, and bring down Ishmael and his family into the wilderness.

1 Ne. 8:12
And as I partook of the fruit thereof it filled my soul with exceedingly great joy; wherefore, I began to be desirous that my family should partake of it also; for I knew that it was desirable above all other fruit.

1 Ne. 8:13
And as I cast my eyes round about, that perhaps I might discover my family also, I beheld a river of water; and it ran along, and it was near the tree of which I was partaking the fruit.