Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'blessing' occurs 124 times in the standard works.

27 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'blessing' in the standard works and contain 21.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 10 minutes to read the entire list.

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2 Ne. 1:28-29 (4 in 2 verses)


Gen. 27:35-38 (4 in 4 verses)

 27:35 And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.

 27:36 And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?

 27:37 And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son?

 27:38 And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.




2 Ne. 4:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 34:26 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Pet. 3:9 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 104:22 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 132:5 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 133:34 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 11:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 5:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 103:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 54 11 65
Gen. 13 5 18
Ex. 1 0 1
Lev. 1 0 1
Deut. 13 1 14
Josh. 1 1 2
Judg. 1 0 1
1 Sam. 1 0 1
2 Sam. 1 0 1
2 Kgs. 1 0 1
Neh. 2 0 2
Job 1 0 1
Ps. 5 1 6
Prov. 4 2 6
Isa. 3 0 3
Ezek. 3 0 3
Joel 1 0 1
Zech. 1 0 1
Mal. 1 1 2
NT 13 1 14
BM 18 16 34
DC 38 49 87
PGP 1 6 7
TOTAL 124 83 207

Gen. 12:2
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

Gen. 22:17
That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

Gen. 27:12
My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.

Gen. 27:30
And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

Gen. 27:35
And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.

Gen. 27:36
And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?

Gen. 27:38
And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

Gen. 27:41
And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.

Gen. 28:4
And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.

Gen. 33:11
Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it.

Gen. 39:5
And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the Lord blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the Lord was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field.

Gen. 49:25
Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:

Gen. 49:26
The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.

Gen. 49:28
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.