Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'face' occurs 673 times in the standard works.

216 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'face' in the standard works and contain 32.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 80 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ezek. 10:14 (6 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 8:17-22 (6 in 6 verses)

Ether 14:19-23 (5 in 5 verses)

Ezek. 1:10 (4 in 1 verse)

Ex. 34:33-35 (4 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 14:12-14 (4 in 3 verses)

Moses 7:4 (3 in 1 verse)

Ex. 10:28-29 (3 in 2 verses)

Ps. 27:8-9 (3 in 2 verses)

Ether 11:6-7 (3 in 2 verses)

Moses 3:5-6 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 14:22-24 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 41:19-21 (3 in 3 verses)

Dan. 11:17-19 (3 in 3 verses)

Luke 9:51-53 (3 in 3 verses)

Hel. 3:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

Hel. 14:20-22 (3 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 9:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

Morm. 8:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

Ether 9:26-28 (3 in 3 verses)

Moses 1:29-31 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 1:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 4:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 32:30 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 33:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 33:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 14:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 5:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 7:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 34:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 6:22 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 3:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Prov. 27:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Eccl. 8:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 15:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 20:35 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 40:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 10:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Acts 6:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Acts 25:16 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Cor. 13:12 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Jn. 1:12 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Jn. 1:14 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 1:9 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 1:31 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 33:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 4:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 10:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 2:29 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 38:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Morm. 2:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 10:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 12:39 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 13:2 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 17:1 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 50:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 1:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 2:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 5:39 (2 in 1 verse)

Abr. 3:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Abr. 4:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 7:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 8:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 11:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 48:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 34:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 20:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 31:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 5:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 14:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezra 9:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 41:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 104:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 50:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 14:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 14:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 39:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 8:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 10:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 12:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 7:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 5:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 9:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 11:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 14:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 16:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 6:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 9:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 13:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 84:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 112:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 130:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 359 67 426
Gen. 49 4 53
Ex. 22 6 28
Lev. 7 1 8
Num. 12 4 16
Deut. 19 0 19
Josh. 3 0 3
Judg. 2 2 4
Ruth 1 0 1
1 Sam. 10 0 10
2 Sam. 15 1 16
1 Kgs. 11 2 13
2 Kgs. 12 0 12
1 Chr. 2 3 5
2 Chr. 9 3 12
Ezra 2 0 2
Neh. 0 1 1
Esth. 2 0 2
Job 20 2 22
Ps. 35 2 37
Prov. 7 0 7
Eccl. 2 0 2
Isa. 18 4 22
Jer. 16 10 26
Lam. 2 1 3
Ezek. 54 15 69
Dan. 14 2 16
Hosea 4 0 4
Joel 2 1 3
Amos 3 0 3
Micah 1 0 1
Nahum 2 1 3
Hab. 0 1 1
Zech. 1 0 1
Mal. 0 1 1
NT 57 7 64
BM 183 8 191
DC 40 1 41
PGP 34 0 34
TOTAL 673 83 756

Gen. 1:2
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Gen. 1:29
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

Gen. 2:6
But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

Gen. 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Gen. 4:14
Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.

Gen. 6:1
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,

Gen. 6:7
And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

Gen. 7:3
Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

Gen. 7:4
For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.

Gen. 7:18
And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

Gen. 7:23
And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.

Gen. 8:8
Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;

Gen. 8:9
But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.

Gen. 8:13
And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.

Gen. 9:23
And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.

Gen. 11:4
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

Gen. 11:8
So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

Gen. 11:9
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

Gen. 16:6
But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face.

Gen. 16:8
And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.

Gen. 17:3
And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,

Gen. 17:17
Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?

Gen. 18:22
And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the Lord.

Gen. 19:1
And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;

Gen. 19:13
For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord; and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it.

Gen. 24:47
And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.

Gen. 30:33
So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.

Gen. 30:40
And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.

Gen. 31:21
So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.

Gen. 32:20
And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.

Gen. 32:30
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

Gen. 33:10
And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.

Gen. 35:1
And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.

Gen. 35:7
And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

Gen. 36:6
And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob.

Gen. 38:15
When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face.

Gen. 41:56
And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.

Gen. 42:6
And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.

Gen. 43:3
And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.

Gen. 43:5
But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down: for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.

Gen. 43:31
And he washed his face, and went out, and refrained himself, and said, Set on bread.

Gen. 44:23
And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.

Gen. 44:26
And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother be with us.

Gen. 46:28
And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.

Gen. 46:30
And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.

Gen. 48:11
And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.

Gen. 48:12
And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.

Gen. 50:1
And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.

Gen. 50:18
And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be thy servants.