Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'jacob' occurs 492 times in the standard works.

233 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'jacob' in the standard works and contain 47.4% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 106 minutes to read the entire list.

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Gen. 25:26-34 (9 in 9 verses)

 25:26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.

 25:27 And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.

 25:28 And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.

 25:29 And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:

 25:30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.

 25:31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.

 25:32 And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?

 25:33 And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.

 25:34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.





Gen. 34:1-7 (7 in 7 verses)

 34:1 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

 34:2 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.

 34:3 And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.

 34:4 And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.

 34:5 And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they were come.

 34:6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him.

 34:7 And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done.





Gen. 35:4-10 (7 in 7 verses)

 35:4 And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.

 35:5 And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.

 35:6 So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Beth-el, he and all the people that were with him.

 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.

 35:8 But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Beth-el under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth.

 35:9 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan-aram, and blessed him.

 35:10 And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.





Gen. 46:2-8 (7 in 7 verses)

 46:2 And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.

 46:3 And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:

 46:4 I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.

 46:5 And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

 46:6 And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him:

 46:7 His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.

 46:8 And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.





Gen. 29:10-15 (6 in 6 verses)

 29:10 And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

 29:11 And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.

 29:12 And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son: and she ran and told her father.

 29:13 And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.

 29:14 And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.

 29:15 And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?





Gen. 47:7-10 (5 in 4 verses)

 47:7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

 47:8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?

 47:9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

 47:10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.





Gen. 30:1-5 (5 in 5 verses)

 30:1 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

 30:2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?

 30:3 And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.

 30:4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.

 30:5 And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.





Gen. 31:22-26 (5 in 5 verses)

 31:22 And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.

 31:23 And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.

 31:24 And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

 31:25 Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.

 31:26 And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives taken with the sword?





3 Ne. 5:21-25 (5 in 5 verses)

 5:21 Surely he hath blessed the house of Jacob, and hath been merciful unto the seed of Joseph.

 5:22 And insomuch as the children of Lehi have kept his commandments he hath blessed them and prospered them according to his word.

 5:23 Yea, and surely shall he again bring a remnant of the seed of Joseph to the knowledge of the Lord their God.

 5:24 And as surely as the Lord liveth, will he gather in from the four quarters of the earth all the remnant of the seed of Jacob, who are scattered abroad upon all the face of the earth.

 5:25 And as he hath covenanted with all the house of Jacob, even so shall the covenant wherewith he hath covenanted with the house of Jacob be fulfilled in his own due time, unto the restoring all the house of Jacob unto the knowledge of the covenant that he hath covenanted with them.





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