Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'plates' occurs 179 times in the standard works.

114 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'plates' in the standard works and contain 63.7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 43 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Ne. 9:1-10:1 (13 in 7 verses)

1 Ne. 19:1-6 (12 in 6 verses)

Jacob 3:13-4:3 (9 in 5 verses)

W of M 1:3-10 (8 in 8 verses)

JS-H 1:62-68 (7 in 7 verses)

Jacob 1:1-4 (5 in 4 verses)

JS-H 1:50-53 (5 in 4 verses)


2 Ne. 5:29-33 (5 in 5 verses)

 5:29 And I, Nephi, had kept the records upon my plates, which I had made, of my people thus far.

 5:30 And it came to pass that the Lord God said unto me: Make other plates; and thou shalt engraven many things upon them which are good in my sight, for the profit of thy people.

 5:31 Wherefore, I, Nephi, to be obedient to the commandments of the Lord, went and made these plates upon which I have engraven these things.

 5:32 And I engraved that which is pleasing unto God. And if my people are pleased with the things of God they will be pleased with mine engravings which are upon these plates.

 5:33 And if my people desire to know the more particular part of the history of my people they must search mine other plates.




JS-H 1:42-46 (5 in 5 verses)

Mosiah 1:3-6 (4 in 4 verses)

D&C 10:38-41 (4 in 4 verses)

Mosiah 28:11 (3 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 4:14-15 (3 in 2 verses)

Jacob 7:26-27 (3 in 2 verses)

Jarom 1:14-15 (3 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 5:10-11 (3 in 2 verses)

Morm. 2:17-18 (3 in 2 verses)

4 Ne. 1:19-21 (3 in 3 verses)

Mosiah 1:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Morm. 1:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Morm. 6:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 16:38-39 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 5:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 19:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 37:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-H 1:34-35 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 6 0 6
NT 0 3 3
BM 144 10 154
DC 9 0 9
PGP 20 0 20
TOTAL 179 13 192

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