Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'sabbath' occurs 144 times in the standard works.

86 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'sabbath' in the standard works and contain 59.7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 36 minutes to read the entire list.

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Neh. 13:15-22 (10 in 8 verses)

Jer. 17:21-27 (7 in 7 verses)

Ex. 31:14-16 (5 in 3 verses)

Luke 13:14-16 (4 in 3 verses)

Mark 2:27-3:2 (4 in 4 verses)

John 7:22-23 (3 in 2 verses)

Lev. 25:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 25:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Kgs. 11:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

Matt. 12:10-12 (3 in 3 verses)

Luke 6:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 23:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 23:32 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 23:39 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 23:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Neh. 10:31 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 58:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 12:5 (2 in 1 verse)

John 19:31 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 16:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 20:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 35:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 23:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 28:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 5:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 12:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 2:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 6:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

John 5:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 13:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 76 35 111
Ex. 14 1 15
Lev. 16 11 27
Num. 3 0 3
Deut. 3 0 3
2 Kgs. 6 0 6
1 Chr. 1 1 2
2 Chr. 4 4 8
Neh. 13 1 14
Isa. 5 2 7
Jer. 7 0 7
Lam. 0 2 2
Ezek. 3 12 15
Hosea 0 1 1
Amos 1 0 1
NT 60 0 60
BM 5 0 5
DC 2 0 2
PGP 1 0 1
TOTAL 144 35 179

Lev. 16:31
It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.

Lev. 19:3
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

Lev. 19:30
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.

Lev. 23:3
Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings.

Lev. 23:11
And he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.

Lev. 23:15
And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:

Lev. 23:16
Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the Lord.

Lev. 23:24
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.

Lev. 23:32
It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.

Lev. 23:38
Beside the sabbaths of the Lord, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the Lord.

Lev. 23:39
Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.

Lev. 24:8
Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the Lord continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.

Lev. 25:2
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the Lord.

Lev. 25:4
But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the Lord: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.

Lev. 25:6
And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,

Lev. 25:8
And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.

Lev. 26:2
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.

Lev. 26:34
Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.

Lev. 26:35
As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

Lev. 26:43
The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.