Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'mothers' occurs 18 times in the standard works.

5 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'mothers' in the standard works and contain 27.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 2 minutes to read the entire list.

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Alma 56:47-48 (3 in 2 verses)

 56:47 Now they never had fought, yet they did not fear death; and they did think more upon the liberty of their fathers than they did upon their lives; yea, they had been taught by their mothers, that if they did not doubt, God would deliver them.

 56:48 And they rehearsed unto me the words of their mothers, saying: We do not doubt our mothers knew it.




Lam. 2:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 5 0 5
NT 3 0 3
BM 9 0 9
1 Ne. 1 0 1
2 Ne. 2 0 2
Alma 4 0 4
3 Ne. 1 0 1
Morm. 1 0 1
DC 1 0 1
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 18 0 18

Alma 56:47
Now they never had fought, yet they did not fear death; and they did think more upon the liberty of their fathers than they did upon their lives; yea, they had been taught by their mothers, that if they did not doubt, God would deliver them.

Alma 56:48
And they rehearsed unto me the words of their mothers, saying: We do not doubt our mothers knew it.

Alma 57:21
Yea, and they did obey and observe to perform every word of command with exactness; yea, and even according to their faith it was done unto them; and I did remember the words which they said unto me that their mothers had taught them.