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)

 4:19 But thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden:

 4:20 But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die.




Num. 17:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 19:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 22:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

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

Num. 3:4
And Nadab and Abihu died before the Lord, when they offered strange fire before the Lord, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the sight of Aaron their father.

Num. 4:15
And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp is to set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear it: but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation.

Num. 4:19
But thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden:

Num. 4:20
But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die.

Num. 6:7
He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head.

Num. 6:9
And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.

Num. 13:10
Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.

Num. 14:2
And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!

Num. 14:35
I the Lord have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

Num. 14:37
Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord.

Num. 15:36
And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the Lord commanded Moses.

Num. 16:29
If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the Lord hath not sent me.

Num. 16:49
Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.

Num. 17:10
And the Lord said unto Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not.

Num. 17:12
And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish.

Num. 17:13
Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the Lord shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?

Num. 18:3
And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die.

Num. 18:22
Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.

Num. 18:32
And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.

Num. 19:14
This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.

Num. 20:1
Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.

Num. 20:3
And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the Lord!

Num. 20:4
And why have ye brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?

Num. 20:26
And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people, and shall die there.

Num. 20:28
And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount.

Num. 21:5
And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.

Num. 21:6
And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.

Num. 23:10
Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!

Num. 25:9
And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

Num. 26:10
And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.

Num. 26:11
Notwithstanding the children of Korah died not.

Num. 26:19
The sons of Judah were Er and Onan: and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.

Num. 26:61
And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the Lord.

Num. 26:65
For the Lord had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

Num. 27:3
Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the Lord in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons.

Num. 27:8
And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter.

Num. 27:20
And thou shalt put some of thine honour upon him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient.

Num. 33:38
And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the Lord, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month.

Num. 33:39
And Aaron was an hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor.

Num. 35:12
And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment.

Num. 35:16
And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

Num. 35:17
And if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

Num. 35:18
Or if he smite him with an hand weapon of wood, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

Num. 35:20
But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying of wait, that he die;

Num. 35:21
Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him.

Num. 35:23
Or with any stone, wherewith a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, that he die, and was not his enemy, neither sought his harm:

Num. 35:30
Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.