Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'skins' occurs 33 times in the standard works.

17 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'skins' in the standard works and contain 51.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 6 minutes to read the entire list.

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Num. 4:10-12 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 25:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 26:14 (2 in 1 verse)


Ex. 35:7 (2 in 1 verse)

 35:7 And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,




Ex. 35:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 36:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 39:34 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 3:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 24 5 29
NT 0 2 2
BM 8 0 8
DC 0 0 0
PGP 1 0 1
TOTAL 33 7 40

Gen. 3:21
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

Gen. 27:16
And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:

Ex. 25:5
And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,

Ex. 26:14
And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers' skins.

Ex. 35:7
And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,

Ex. 35:23
And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair, and red skins of rams, and badgers' skins, brought them.

Ex. 36:19
And he made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers' skins above that.

Ex. 39:34
And the covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the covering of badgers' skins, and the veil of the covering,

Lev. 13:59
This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen or linen, either in the warp, or woof, or any thing of skins, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.

Lev. 16:27
And the bullock for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall one carry forth without the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung.

Num. 4:6
And shall put thereon the covering of badgers' skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof.

Num. 4:8
And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put in the staves thereof.

Num. 4:10
And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put it upon a bar.

Num. 4:11
And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put to the staves thereof:

Num. 4:12
And they shall take all the instruments of ministry, wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put them on a bar:

Num. 4:14
And they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof, wherewith they minister about it, even the censers, the fleshhooks, and the shovels, and the basins, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of badgers' skins, and put to the staves of it.

Num. 4:25
And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, his covering, and the covering of the badgers' skins that is above upon it, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,

Num. 31:20
And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats' hair, and all things made of wood.

Josh. 5:3
And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.

1 Sam. 18:25
And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

1 Sam. 18:27
Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.

2 Sam. 3:14
And David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth Saul's son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred foreskins of the Philistines.

Jer. 4:4
Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Heb. 11:37
They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;

1 Ne. 17:11
And it came to pass that I, Nephi, did make a bellows wherewith to blow the fire, of the skins of beasts; and after I had made a bellows, that I might have wherewith to blow the fire, I did smite two stones together that I might make fire.

Jacob 3:5
Behold, the Lamanites your brethren, whom ye hate because of their filthiness and the cursing which hath come upon their skins, are more righteous than you; for they have not forgotten the commandment of the Lord, which was given unto our father-- that they should have save it were one wife, and concubines they should have none, and there should not be whoredoms committed among them.

Jacob 3:8
O my brethren, I fear that unless ye shall repent of your sins that their skins will be whiter than yours, when ye shall be brought with them before the throne of God.

Jacob 3:9
Wherefore, a commandment I give unto you, which is the word of God, that ye revile no more against them because of the darkness of their skins; neither shall ye revile against them because of their filthiness; but ye shall remember your own filthiness, and remember that their filthiness came because of their fathers.

Alma 3:6
And the skins of the Lamanites were dark, according to the mark which was set upon their fathers, which was a curse upon them because of their transgression and their rebellion against their brethren, who consisted of Nephi, Jacob, and Joseph, and Sam, who were just and holy men.

Alma 20:29
And when Ammon did meet them he was exceedingly sorrowful, for behold they were naked, and their skins were worn exceedingly because of being bound with strong cords. And they also had suffered hunger, thirst, and all kinds of afflictions; nevertheless they were patient in all their sufferings.

Alma 44:18
But behold, their naked skins and their bare heads were exposed to the sharp swords of the Nephites; yea, behold they were pierced and smitten, yea, and did fall exceedingly fast before the swords of the Nephites; and they began to be swept down, even as the soldier of Moroni had prophesied.

Alma 49:6
Now the leaders of the Lamanites had supposed, because of the greatness of their numbers, yea, they supposed that they should be privileged to come upon them as they had hitherto done; yea, and they had also prepared themselves with shields, and with breastplates; and they had also prepared themselves with garments of skins, yea, very thick garments to cover their nakedness.

Moses 4:27
Unto Adam, and also unto his wife, did I, the Lord God, make coats of skins, and clothed them.