Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'die' occurs 398 times in the standard works.

128 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'die' in the standard works and contain 32.2% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 51 minutes to read the entire list.

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Num. 35:16-23 (9 in 8 verses)

Ezek. 3:18-20 (5 in 3 verses)

D&C 42:44-47 (5 in 4 verses)

2 Kgs. 7:3-4 (4 in 2 verses)

D&C 63:49-51 (4 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 33:8-11 (4 in 4 verses)

2 Chr. 25:4 (3 in 1 verse)

Rom. 14:8 (3 in 1 verse)

Jer. 11:21-22 (3 in 2 verses)

Deut. 20:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Sam. 14:43-45 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 33:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 12:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 47:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 5:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 6:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Jonah 4:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Luke 20:28 (2 in 1 verse)

John 8:24 (2 in 1 verse)

John 12:24 (2 in 1 verse)

John 21:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Rom. 5:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 7:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 42:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Moro. 10:26 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 124:86 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 5:29 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 3:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 14:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 30:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 10:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 4:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 17:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 19:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)


Deut. 22:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

 22:21 Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.

 22:22 If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.




Deut. 22:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 2:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 12:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 22:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 34:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 38:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 42:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 18:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 18:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 18:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

John 11:50-51 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 15:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 9:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 28:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 88:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 4:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 273 249 522
Gen. 27 38 65
Ex. 21 9 30
Lev. 10 5 15
Num. 30 24 54
Deut. 25 7 32
Josh. 1 5 6
Judg. 5 15 20
Ruth 1 3 4
1 Sam. 14 10 24
2 Sam. 8 19 27
1 Kgs. 9 17 26
2 Kgs. 10 12 22
1 Chr. 0 23 23
2 Chr. 4 13 17
Ezra 0 1 1
Neh. 0 4 4
Esth. 0 1 1
Job 10 7 17
Ps. 7 3 10
Prov. 6 4 10
Eccl. 3 3 6
Isa. 9 7 16
Jer. 28 7 35
Ezek. 34 7 41
Dan. 0 2 2
Hosea 0 1 1
Amos 5 1 6
Jonah 3 0 3
Hab. 1 0 1
Zech. 2 1 3
NT 48 137 185
BM 42 170 212
DC 24 86 110
PGP 11 18 29
TOTAL 398 660 1058

Deut. 4:22
But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good land.

Deut. 4:30
When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;

Deut. 5:25
Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, then we shall die.

Deut. 8:20
As the nations which the Lord destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the Lord your God.

Deut. 10:6
And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead.

Deut. 13:10
And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

Deut. 14:21
Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

Deut. 17:5
Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.

Deut. 17:12
And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the Lord thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.

Deut. 18:16
According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.

Deut. 18:20
But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.

Deut. 19:5
As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:

Deut. 19:11
But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities:

Deut. 19:12
Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

Deut. 20:5
And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.

Deut. 20:6
And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.

Deut. 20:7
And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.

Deut. 21:21
And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

Deut. 22:21
Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.

Deut. 22:22
If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.

Deut. 22:24
Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.

Deut. 22:25
But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die:

Deut. 24:3
And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;

Deut. 24:7
If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.

Deut. 25:5
If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.

Deut. 31:14
And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation.

Deut. 32:50
And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people:

Deut. 33:6
Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few.

Deut. 34:5
So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord.

Deut. 34:7
And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.