Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'first' occurs 698 times in the standard works.

201 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'first' in the standard works and contain 28.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 76 minutes to read the entire list.

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D&C 88:52-59 (8 in 8 verses)

Mosiah 15:21-26 (6 in 6 verses)

Abr. 3:26-28 (5 in 3 verses)

Jacob 5:60-63 (5 in 4 verses)

D&C 29:30-32 (4 in 3 verses)

Ex. 12:15-18 (4 in 4 verses)

Deut. 10:1-4 (4 in 4 verses)

Abr. 1:23-26 (4 in 4 verses)


Gen. 8:13 (3 in 1 verse)

 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.




2 Chr. 29:17 (3 in 1 verse)

Ezra 7:9 (3 in 1 verse)

Alma 12:36 (3 in 1 verse)

D&C 88:98 (3 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 27:2-3 (3 in 2 verses)

Ezra 10:16-17 (3 in 2 verses)

Num. 6:12-14 (3 in 3 verses)

Mark 12:28-30 (3 in 3 verses)

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