Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'blood' occurs 657 times in the standard works.

320 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'blood' in the standard works and contain 48.7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 124 minutes to read the entire list.

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Lev. 17:4-14 (13 in 11 verses)

D&C 135:3-7 (10 in 5 verses)

Lev. 16:14-19 (8 in 6 verses)

Alma 24:12-18 (7 in 7 verses)

Heb. 9:18-22 (6 in 5 verses)

Ezek. 35:5-6 (5 in 2 verses)

Lev. 4:5-7 (5 in 3 verses)

Num. 35:24-27 (5 in 4 verses)

Moses 6:59-62 (5 in 4 verses)

Ex. 7:17-21 (5 in 5 verses)

Gen. 9:4-6 (4 in 3 verses)

Ex. 24:6-8 (4 in 3 verses)

Lev. 4:16-18 (4 in 3 verses)

Deut. 21:7-9 (4 in 3 verses)

2 Chr. 29:22-24 (4 in 3 verses)

Heb. 9:12-14 (4 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 18:28-30 (4 in 3 verses)

Lev. 9:9-12 (4 in 4 verses)

Deut. 19:10-13 (4 in 4 verses)

Ezek. 16:6-9 (4 in 4 verses)

John 6:53-56 (4 in 4 verses)

Rev. 16:3-6 (4 in 4 verses)

D&C 63:28-31 (4 in 4 verses)

Num. 35:33 (3 in 1 verse)

Ps. 106:38 (3 in 1 verse)

Matt. 23:35 (3 in 1 verse)

Ex. 12:22-23 (3 in 2 verses)

Ex. 29:20-21 (3 in 2 verses)

Lev. 8:23-24 (3 in 2 verses)

Num. 19:4-5 (3 in 2 verses)

Deut. 32:42-43 (3 in 2 verses)

Isa. 34:6-7 (3 in 2 verses)

Luke 11:50-51 (3 in 2 verses)

Hel. 9:31-32 (3 in 2 verses)

Lev. 20:11-13 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Sam. 14:32-34 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Kgs. 2:31-33 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Kgs. 16:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 16:36-38 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 33:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 39:17-19 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Jn. 5:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 43:54-44:2 (3 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 9:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

Ether 14:22-24 (3 in 3 verses)

Abr. 1:20-22 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 12:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 29:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 1:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 4:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 4:30 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 4:34 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 5:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 8:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 12:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 12:27 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 17:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 2:19 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 2:5 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 21:19 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 9:7 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 9:26 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 24:4 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 22:8 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 19:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 23:45 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 33:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Hosea 4:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 17:6 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 22:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 1:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 9:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 11:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 1:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 52:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 54:12 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 4:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Morm. 4:11 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 45:4 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 132:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 4:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 22:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 7:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 12:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 14:51-52 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 3:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 3:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Lam. 4:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 22:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 22:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 24:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Joel 2:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 27:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 8:43-44 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 2:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Heb. 13:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 8:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 12:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 2:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 3:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 7:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 5:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 20:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 48:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 61:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Morm. 8:40-41 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 3:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 13:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 45:41-42 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 132:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 5:35-36 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 346 17 363
NT 101 1 102
BM 151 27 178
DC 47 3 50
PGP 12 2 14
TOTAL 657 50 707

Ex. 4:25
Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.

Ex. 4:26
So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.

2 Sam. 16:7
And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial:

2 Sam. 16:8
The Lord hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the Lord hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou art taken in thy mischief, because thou art a bloody man.

2 Sam. 21:1
Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the Lord. And the Lord answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.

Ps. 5:6
Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

Ps. 26:9
Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:

Ps. 51:14
Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

Ps. 55:23
But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.

Ps. 59:2
Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.

Ps. 139:19
Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.

Prov. 29:10
The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.

Ezek. 7:23
Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

Ezek. 22:2
Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.

Ezek. 24:6
Wherefore thus saith the Lord God; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.

Ezek. 24:9
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.

Nahum 3:1
Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;

Acts 28:8
And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him.

2 Ne. 1:12
Yea, as one generation passeth to another there shall be bloodsheds, and great visitations among them; wherefore, my sons, I would that ye would remember; yea, I would that ye would hearken unto my words.

2 Ne. 6:15
And they that believe not in him shall be destroyed, both by fire, and by tempest, and by earthquakes, and by bloodsheds, and by pestilence, and by famine. And they shall know that the Lord is God, the Holy One of Israel.

2 Ne. 10:6
Wherefore, because of their iniquities, destructions, famines, pestilences, and bloodshed shall come upon them; and they who shall not be destroyed shall be scattered among all nations.

Jacob 7:24
And it came to pass that many means were devised to reclaim and restore the Lamanites to the knowledge of the truth; but it all was vain, for they delighted in wars and bloodshed, and they had an eternal hatred against us, their brethren. And they sought by the power of their arms to destroy us continually.

Omni 1:3
And it came to pass that two hundred and seventy and six years had passed away, and we had many seasons of peace; and we had many seasons of serious war and bloodshed. Yea, and in fine, two hundred and eighty and two years had passed away, and I had kept these plates according to the commandments of my fathers; and I conferred them upon my son Amaron. And I make an end.

Omni 1:24
And behold, I have seen, in the days of king Benjamin, a serious war and much bloodshed between the Nephites and the Lamanites. But behold, the Nephites did obtain much advantage over them; yea, insomuch that king Benjamin did drive them out of the land of Zarahemla.

Mosiah 29:36
Yea, all his iniquities and abominations, and all the wars, and contentions, and bloodshed, and the stealing, and the plundering, and the committing of whoredoms, and all manner of iniquities which cannot be enumerated-- telling them that these things ought not to be, that they were expressly repugnant to the commandments of God.

Alma 28:10
And from the first year to the fifteenth has brought to pass the destruction of many thousand lives; yea, it has brought to pass an awful scene of bloodshed.

Alma 35:15
Now Alma, being grieved for the iniquity of his people, yea for the wars, and the bloodsheds, and the contentions which were among them; and having been to declare the word, or sent to declare the word, among all the people in every city; and seeing that the hearts of the people began to wax hard, and that they began to be offended because of the strictness of the word, his heart was exceedingly sorrowful.

Alma 43:14
Now those descendants were as numerous, nearly, as were the Nephites; and thus the Nephites were obliged to contend with their brethren, even unto bloodshed.

Alma 43:47
And again, the Lord has said that: Ye shall defend your families even unto bloodshed. Therefore for this cause were the Nephites contending with the Lamanites, to defend themselves, and their families, and their lands, their country, and their rights, and their religion.

Alma 45:11
Yea, and then shall they see wars and pestilences, yea, famines and bloodshed, even until the people of Nephi shall become extinct--

Alma 48:11
And Moroni was a strong and a mighty man; he was a man of a perfect understanding; yea, a man that did not delight in bloodshed; a man whose soul did joy in the liberty and the freedom of his country, and his brethren from bondage and slavery;

Alma 51:4
Therefore, those who were desirous that the law should be altered were angry with him, and desired that he should no longer be chief judge over the land; therefore there arose a warm dispute concerning the matter, but not unto bloodshed.

Alma 55:19
But behold, this was not the desire of Moroni; he did not delight in murder or bloodshed, but he delighted in the saving of his people from destruction; and for this cause he might not bring upon him injustice, he would not fall upon the Lamanites and destroy them in their drunkenness.

Alma 60:16
Yea, had it not been for the war which broke out among ourselves; yea, were it not for these king-men, who caused so much bloodshed among ourselves; yea, at the time we were contending among ourselves, if we had united our strength as we hitherto have done; yea, had it not been for the desire of power and authority which those king-men had over us; had they been true to the cause of our freedom, and united with us, and gone forth against our enemies, instead of taking up their swords against us, which was the cause of so much bloodshed among ourselves; yea, if we had gone forth against them in the strength of the Lord, we should have dispersed our enemies, for it would have been done, according to the fulfilling of his word.

Alma 61:10
And now, behold, we will resist wickedness even unto bloodshed. We would not shed the blood of the Lamanites if they would stay in their own land.

Alma 62:35
And thus they did encamp for the night. For behold, the Nephites and the Lamanites also were weary because of the greatness of the march; therefore they did not resolve upon any stratagem in the night-time, save it were Teancum; for he was exceedingly angry with Ammoron, insomuch that he considered that Ammoron, and Amalickiah his brother, had been the cause of this great and lasting war between them and the Lamanites, which had been the cause of so much war and bloodshed, yea, and so much famine.

Alma 62:39
And thus ended the thirty and first year of the reign of the judges over the people of Nephi; and thus they had had wars, and bloodsheds, and famine, and affliction, for the space of many years.

Hel. 1:30
And it came to pass that Moronihah did head them in their retreat, and did give unto them battle, insomuch that it became an exceedingly bloody battle; yea, many were slain, and among the number who were slain Coriantumr was also found.

Hel. 4:1
And it came to pass in the fifty and fourth year there were many dissensions in the church, and there was also a contention among the people, insomuch that there was much bloodshed.

Hel. 6:17
For behold, the Lord had blessed them so long with the riches of the world that they had not been stirred up to anger, to wars, nor to bloodshed; therefore they began to set their hearts upon their riches; yea, they began to seek to get gain that they might be lifted up one above another; therefore they began to commit secret murders, and to rob and to plunder, that they might get gain.

Morm. 1:12
And it came to pass that the Lamanites withdrew their design, and there was peace settled in the land; and peace did remain for the space of about four years, that there was no bloodshed.

Morm. 4:5
But, behold, the judgments of God will overtake the wicked; and it is by the wicked that the wicked are punished; for it is the wicked that stir up the hearts of the children of men unto bloodshed.

Morm. 8:8
And behold, it is the hand of the Lord which hath done it. And behold also, the Lamanites are at war one with another; and the whole face of this land is one continual round of murder and bloodshed; and no one knoweth the end of the war.

Ether 14:21
And so great and lasting had been the war, and so long had been the scene of bloodshed and carnage, that the whole face of the land was covered with the bodies of the dead.

D&C 87:6
And thus, with the sword and by bloodshed the inhabitants of the earth shall mourn; and with famine, and plague, and earthquake, and the thunder of heaven, and the fierce and vivid lightning also, shall the inhabitants of the earth be made to feel the wrath, and indignation, and chastening hand of an Almighty God, until the consumption decreed hath made a full end of all nations;

D&C 109:66
That they may lay down their weapons of bloodshed, and cease their rebellions.

D&C 130:12
I prophesy, in the name of the Lord God, that the commencement of the difficulties which will cause much bloodshed previous to the coming of the Son of Man will be in South Carolina.

Moses 6:15
And the children of men were numerous upon all the face of the land. And in those days Satan had great dominion among men, and raged in their hearts; and from thenceforth came wars and bloodshed; and a man's hand was against his own brother, in administering death, because of secret works, seeking for power.

Moses 7:16
And from that time forth there were wars and bloodshed among them; but the Lord came and dwelt with his people, and they dwelt in righteousness.