Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'nine' occurs 71 times in the standard works.

15 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'nine' in the standard works and contain 21.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 6 minutes to read the entire list.

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3 Ne. 2:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 5:27 (2 in 1 verse)

4 Ne. 1:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 8:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Neh. 7:38-39 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 18:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 6:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 45 44 89
NT 5 7 12
BM 12 30 42
DC 2 4 6
PGP 7 3 10
TOTAL 71 88 159

D&C 107:46
Mahalaleel was four hundred and ninety-six years and seven days old when he was ordained by the hand of Adam, who also blessed him.

D&C 107:89
Again, the duty of the president over the office of elders is to preside over ninety-six elders, and to sit in council with them, and to teach them according to the covenants.

D&C 135:6
Hyrum Smith was forty-four years old in February, 1844, and Joseph Smith was thirty-eight in December, 1843; and henceforward their names will be classed among the martyrs of religion; and the reader in every nation will be reminded that the Book of Mormon, and this book of Doctrine and Covenants of the church, cost the best blood of the nineteenth century to bring them forth for the salvation of a ruined world; and that if the fire can scathe a green tree for the glory of God, how easy it will burn up the dry trees to purify the vineyard of corruption. They lived for glory; they died for glory; and glory is their eternal reward. From age to age shall their names go down to posterity as gems for the sanctified.

D&C 138:1
On the third of October, in the year nineteen hundred and eighteen, I sat in my room pondering over the scriptures;