Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'age' occurs 77 times in the standard works.

16 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'age' in the standard works and contain 20.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 8 minutes to read the entire list.

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D&C 107:42-45 (4 in 4 verses)

D&C 135:6 (2 in 1 verse)


Josh. 23:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

 23:1 And it came to pass a long time after that the Lord had given rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua waxed old and stricken in age.

 23:2 And Joshua called for all Israel, and for their elders, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said unto them, I am old and stricken in age:




Mosiah 10:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Morm. 1:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 10:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-H 1:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 32 453 485
Gen. 10 24 34
Ex. 0 17 17
Lev. 0 9 9
Num. 1 9 10
Deut. 0 26 26
Josh. 2 42 44
Judg. 1 22 23
Ruth 1 0 1
1 Sam. 1 11 12
2 Sam. 0 6 6
1 Kgs. 2 3 5
2 Kgs. 0 21 21
1 Chr. 3 13 16
2 Chr. 1 26 27
Ezra 0 5 5
Neh. 0 20 20
Esth. 0 7 7
Job 4 13 17
Ps. 3 26 29
Prov. 0 7 7
Song. 0 1 1
Isa. 2 42 44
Jer. 0 27 27
Lam. 0 1 1
Ezek. 0 15 15
Dan. 0 27 27
Hosea 0 6 6
Joel 0 2 2
Amos 0 2 2
Micah 0 7 7
Nahum 0 3 3
Hab. 0 3 3
Zeph. 0 2 2
Hag. 0 4 4
Zech. 1 2 3
Mal. 0 2 2
NT 10 111 121
BM 19 218 237
DC 13 114 127
PGP 3 34 37
TOTAL 77 930 1007

Josh. 1:6
Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them.

Josh. 1:7
Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.

Josh. 1:9
Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

Josh. 1:18
Whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy commandment, and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him, he shall be put to death: only be strong and of a good courage.

Josh. 2:11
And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the Lord your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.

Josh. 10:25
And Joshua said unto them, Fear not, nor be dismayed, be strong and of good courage: for thus shall the Lord do to all your enemies against whom ye fight.

Josh. 13:23
And the border of the children of Reuben was Jordan, and the border thereof. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben after their families, the cities and the villages thereof.

Josh. 13:28
This is the inheritance of the children of Gad after their families, the cities, and their villages.

Josh. 15:32
And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages:

Josh. 15:36
And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages:

Josh. 15:41
And Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages:

Josh. 15:44
And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages:

Josh. 15:45
Ekron, with her towns and her villages:

Josh. 15:46
From Ekron even unto the sea, all that lay near Ashdod, with their villages:

Josh. 15:47
Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns and her villages, unto the river of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border thereof:

Josh. 15:51
And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages:

Josh. 15:54
And Humtah, and Kirjath-arba, which is Hebron, and Zior; nine cities with their villages:

Josh. 15:57
Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages:

Josh. 15:59
And Maarath, and Beth-anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages:

Josh. 15:60
Kirjath-baal, which is Kirjath-jearim, and Rabbah; two cities with their villages:

Josh. 15:62
And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and En-gedi; six cities with their villages.

Josh. 16:9
And the separate cities for the children of Ephraim were among the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.

Josh. 18:24
And Chephar-haammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities with their villages:

Josh. 18:28
And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.

Josh. 19:6
And Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and their villages:

Josh. 19:7
Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages:

Josh. 19:8
And all the villages that were round about these cities to Baalath-beer, Ramath of the south. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.

Josh. 19:15
And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Beth-lehem: twelve cities with their villages.

Josh. 19:16
This is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages.

Josh. 19:22
And the coast reacheth to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and Beth-shemesh; and the outgoings of their border were at Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.

Josh. 19:23
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities and their villages.

Josh. 19:30
Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with their villages.

Josh. 19:31
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.

Josh. 19:38
And Iron, and Migdal-el, Horem, and Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh; nineteen cities with their villages.

Josh. 19:39
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities and their villages.

Josh. 19:48
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.

Josh. 21:12
But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.

Josh. 22:11
And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have built an altar over against the land of Canaan, in the borders of Jordan, at the passage of the children of Israel.

Josh. 23:1
And it came to pass a long time after that the Lord had given rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua waxed old and stricken in age.

Josh. 23:2
And Joshua called for all Israel, and for their elders, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said unto them, I am old and stricken in age:

Josh. 23:6
Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left;

Josh. 23:12
Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:

Josh. 24:17
For the Lord our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed: