Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'generation' occurs 259 times in the standard works.

138 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'generation' in the standard works and contain 53.3% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 46 minutes to read the entire list.

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D&C 124:69-82 (18 in 14 verses)

3 Ne. 27:30-32 (5 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 25:21-22 (4 in 2 verses)

W of M 1:10-11 (4 in 2 verses)

Prov. 30:11-14 (4 in 4 verses)

Luke 11:29-32 (4 in 4 verses)

D&C 124:56-59 (4 in 4 verses)

2 Ne. 25:9 (3 in 1 verse)

D&C 124:117 (3 in 1 verse)

Ps. 78:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 98:28-30 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 121:21-23 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 17:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 2:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Eccl. 1:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 13:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 34:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 34:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 51:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 50:39 (2 in 1 verse)

Lam. 5:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 4:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 4:34 (2 in 1 verse)

Joel 3:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Mark 8:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Luke 1:50 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 8:8 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 9:2 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 23:20 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 25:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 1:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 12:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 28:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 6:30 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 13:10 (2 in 1 verse)

4 Ne. 1:48 (2 in 1 verse)

Moro. 10:28 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 10:33 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 56:20 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 69:8 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 109:71 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 117:12 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 124:96 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 127:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 7:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 23:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 12:41-42 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 11:50-51 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 6:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 11:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 45:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 84:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 70 112 182
Gen. 3 18 21
Ex. 5 17 22
Lev. 0 14 14
Num. 2 21 23
Deut. 9 2 11
Josh. 0 2 2
Judg. 2 1 3
Ruth 0 1 1
2 Kgs. 2 0 2
1 Chr. 0 10 10
Esth. 1 0 1
Job 0 1 1
Ps. 17 19 36
Prov. 5 0 5
Eccl. 2 0 2
Isa. 9 5 14
Jer. 4 0 4
Lam. 2 0 2
Dan. 4 0 4
Joel 3 1 4
NT 37 8 45
BM 62 19 81
DC 84 12 96
PGP 6 6 12
TOTAL 259 157 416

1 Chr. 1:29
These are their generations: The firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,

1 Chr. 5:7
And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned, were the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,

1 Chr. 7:2
And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father's house, to wit, of Tola: they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.

1 Chr. 7:4
And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, were bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand men: for they had many wives and sons.

1 Chr. 7:9
And the number of them, after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour, was twenty thousand and two hundred.

1 Chr. 8:28
These were heads of the fathers, by their generations, chief men. These dwelt in Jerusalem.

1 Chr. 9:9
And their brethren, according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty and six. All these men were chief of the fathers in the house of their fathers.

1 Chr. 9:34
These chief fathers of the Levites were chief throughout their generations; these dwelt at Jerusalem.

1 Chr. 16:15
Be ye mindful always of his covenant; the word which he commanded to a thousand generations;

1 Chr. 26:31
Among the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief, even among the Hebronites, according to the generations of his fathers. In the fortieth year of the reign of David they were sought for, and there were found among them mighty men of valour at Jazer of Gilead.