Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'souls' occurs 203 times in the standard works.

44 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'souls' in the standard works and contain 21.7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 18 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ezek. 13:18-20 (8 in 3 verses)

Gen. 46:22-27 (6 in 6 verses)

Josh. 10:35-37 (3 in 3 verses)

Josh. 10:37-39 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 1:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 2:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 9:28 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 3:30 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 30:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 9:46-47 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 5:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 37:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 40:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 58:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Morm. 9:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 10:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 59 0 59
NT 19 0 19
BM 91 0 91
1 Ne. 2 0 2
2 Ne. 8 0 8
Jacob 6 0 6
Omni 1 0 1
Mosiah 8 0 8
Alma 40 0 40
Hel. 9 0 9
3 Ne. 5 0 5
Morm. 4 0 4
Ether 4 0 4
Moro. 4 0 4
DC 29 0 29
PGP 5 0 5
TOTAL 203 0 203

Ether 6:16
And the friends of Jared and his brother were in number about twenty and two souls; and they also begat sons and daughters before they came to the promised land; and therefore they began to be many.

Ether 6:20
And accordingly the people were gathered together. Now the number of the sons and the daughters of the brother of Jared were twenty and two souls; and the number of sons and daughters of Jared were twelve, he having four sons.

Ether 9:12
And there began to be a war between the sons of Akish and Akish, which lasted for the space of many years, yea, unto the destruction of nearly all the people of the kingdom, yea, even all, save it were thirty souls, and they who fled with the house of Omer.

Ether 12:4
Wherefore, whoso believeth in God might with surety hope for a better world, yea, even a place at the right hand of God, which hope cometh of faith, maketh an anchor to the souls of men, which would make them sure and steadfast, always abounding in good works, being led to glorify God.