Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'west' occurs 127 times in the standard works.

52 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'west' in the standard works and contain 40.9% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 22 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ezek. 48:1-10 (10 in 10 verses)

Alma 22:27-33 (9 in 7 verses)

Ezek. 48:23-27 (5 in 5 verses)

Alma 2:34-37 (4 in 4 verses)

Ezek. 45:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 47:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Acts 27:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 8:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 43:32 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 50:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 8:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 11:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 18:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 48:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 52:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 42:63-64 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 62 136 198
NT 7 44 51
Matt. 2 3 5
Mark 0 1 1
Luke 2 8 10
John 0 12 12
Acts 2 2 4
Rom. 0 1 1
1 Cor. 0 5 5
2 Tim. 0 2 2
Philem. 0 1 1
Rev. 1 9 10
BM 42 27 69
DC 13 17 30
PGP 3 1 4
TOTAL 127 225 352

Matt. 8:11
And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.

Matt. 24:27
For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Luke 12:54
And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud rise out of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower; and so it is.

Luke 13:29
And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.

Acts 27:12
And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west.

Rev. 21:13
On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.