Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'tell' occurs 296 times in the standard works.

72 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'tell' in the standard works and contain 24.3% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 29 minutes to read the entire list.

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Alma 18:20-22 (4 in 3 verses)

Matt. 21:24-27 (4 in 4 verses)

Moses 5:29 (3 in 1 verse)

2 Cor. 12:2-3 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 54:6-7 (3 in 2 verses)

Job 1:15-17 (3 in 3 verses)

Mosiah 2:15-17 (3 in 3 verses)

Mosiah 3:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 15:14-16 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 6:15-17 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 24:49 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 12:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Eccl. 10:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Joel 1:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Mark 11:33 (2 in 1 verse)

Luke 22:67 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 20:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 9:20 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 24:1 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 9:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 20:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 18:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 48:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 23:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 36:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 28:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 20:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 2:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 4:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 28:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 133 12 145
NT 84 2 86
BM 53 12 65
DC 18 8 26
PGP 8 13 21
Moses 6 0 6
Abr. 0 8 8
JS-M 1 0 1
JS-H 1 5 6
TOTAL 296 47 343

Moses 1:30
And it came to pass that Moses called upon God, saying: Tell me, I pray thee, why these things are so, and by what thou madest them?

Moses 1:36
And it came to pass that Moses spake unto the Lord, saying: Be merciful unto thy servant, O God, and tell me concerning this earth, and the inhabitants thereof, and also the heavens, and then thy servant will be content.

Moses 5:29
And Satan said unto Cain: Swear unto me by thy throat, and if thou tell it thou shalt die; and swear thy brethren by their heads, and by the living God, that they tell it not; for if they tell it, they shall surely die; and this that thy father may not know it; and this day I will deliver thy brother Abel into thine hands.

Moses 6:40
And there came a man unto him, whose name was Mahijah, and said unto him: Tell us plainly who thou art, and from whence thou comest?

Abr. 3:18
Howbeit that he made the greater star; as, also, if there be two spirits, and one shall be more intelligent than the other, yet these two spirits, notwithstanding one is more intelligent than the other, have no beginning; they existed before, they shall have no end, they shall exist after, for they are gnolaum, or eternal.

Abr. 3:19
And the Lord said unto me: These two facts do exist, that there are two spirits, one being more intelligent than the other; there shall be another more intelligent than they; I am the Lord thy God, I am more intelligent than they all.

Abr. 3:21
I dwell in the midst of them all; I now, therefore, have come down unto thee to declare unto thee the works which my hands have made, wherein my wisdom excelleth them all, for I rule in the heavens above, and in the earth beneath, in all wisdom and prudence, over all the intelligences thine eyes have seen from the beginning; I came down in the beginning in the midst of all the intelligences thou hast seen.

Abr. 3:22
Now the Lord had shown unto me, Abraham, the intelligences that were organized before the world was; and among all these there were many of the noble and great ones;

JS-M 1:4
And Jesus left them, and went upon the Mount of Olives. And as he sat upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying: Tell us when shall these things be which thou hast said concerning the destruction of the temple, and the Jews; and what is the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world, or the destruction of the wicked, which is the end of the world?

JS-H 1:22
I soon found, however, that my telling the story had excited a great deal of prejudice against me among professors of religion, and was the cause of great persecution, which continued to increase; and though I was an obscure boy, only between fourteen and fifteen years of age, and my circumstances in life such as to make a boy of no consequence in the world, yet men of high standing would take notice sufficient to excite the public mind against me, and create a bitter persecution; and this was common among all the sects-- all united to persecute me.

JS-H 1:25
So it was with me. I had actually seen a light, and in the midst of that light I saw two Personages, and they did in reality speak to me; and though I was hated and persecuted for saying that I had seen a vision, yet it was true; and while they were persecuting me, reviling me, and speaking all manner of evil against me falsely for so saying, I was led to say in my heart: Why persecute me for telling the truth? I have actually seen a vision; and who am I that I can withstand God, or why does the world think to make me deny what I have actually seen? For I had seen a vision; I knew it, and I knew that God knew it, and I could not deny it, neither dared I do it; at least I knew that by so doing I would offend God, and come under condemnation.

JS-H 1:36
After telling me these things, he commenced quoting the prophecies of the Old Testament. He first quoted part of the third chapter of Malachi; and he quoted also the fourth or last chapter of the same prophecy, though with a little variation from the way it reads in our Bibles. Instead of quoting the first verse as it reads in our books, he quoted it thus:

JS-H 1:46
By this time, so deep were the impressions made on my mind, that sleep had fled from my eyes, and I lay overwhelmed in astonishment at what I had both seen and heard. But what was my surprise when again I beheld the same messenger at my bedside, and heard him rehearse or repeat over again to me the same things as before; and added a caution to me, telling me that Satan would try to tempt me (in consequence of the indigent circumstances of my father's family), to get the plates for the purpose of getting rich. This he forbade me, saying that I must have no other object in view in getting the plates but to glorify God, and must not be influenced by any other motive than that of building his kingdom; otherwise I could not get them.

JS-H 1:49
The first thing that I can recollect was a voice speaking unto me, calling me by name. I looked up, and beheld the same messenger standing over my head, surrounded by light as before. He then again related unto me all that he had related to me the previous night, and commanded me to go to my father and tell him of the vision and commandments which I had received.

JS-H 1:54
Accordingly, as I had been commanded, I went at the end of each year, and at each time I found the same messenger there, and received instruction and intelligence from him at each of our interviews, respecting what the Lord was going to do, and how and in what manner his kingdom was to be conducted in the last days.