Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'beginning' occurs 249 times in the standard works.

56 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'beginning' in the standard works and contain 22.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 23 minutes to read the entire list.

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4 Ne. 1:38-39 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 13:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Jn. 2:7 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Jn. 2:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 5:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 8:25 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 76:13 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 77:12 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 94:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 2:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Abr. 1:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Abr. 3:21 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 21:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 8:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

John 1:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

John 2:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Jn. 2:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Jn. 1:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 5:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 5:74-75 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 29:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 84:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 87:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 93:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 115:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 4:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-M 1:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 54 3 57
Gen. 5 0 5
Ex. 1 0 1
Num. 0 2 2
Deut. 3 0 3
Judg. 1 0 1
Ruth 2 0 2
2 Sam. 2 0 2
2 Kgs. 1 0 1
1 Chr. 1 0 1
Ezra 1 0 1
Job 2 0 2
Ps. 2 0 2
Prov. 6 0 6
Eccl. 3 0 3
Isa. 12 0 12
Jer. 5 0 5
Lam. 1 0 1
Ezek. 1 1 2
Dan. 2 0 2
Hosea 1 0 1
Amos 1 0 1
Micah 1 0 1
NT 52 1 53
BM 56 0 56
DC 60 0 60
PGP 27 0 27
TOTAL 249 4 253

Gen. 1:1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Gen. 10:10
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Gen. 13:3
And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth-el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Hai;

Gen. 41:21
And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

Gen. 49:3
Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: