Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'years' occurs 767 times in the standard works.

391 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'years' in the standard works and contain 51% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 154 minutes to read the entire list.

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Gen. 5:3-23 (21 in 21 verses)

Moses 6:10-25 (19 in 16 verses)

Gen. 11:10-26 (18 in 17 verses)

D&C 107:42-53 (13 in 12 verses)

Moses 8:5-12 (9 in 8 verses)

Lev. 25:8-16 (9 in 9 verses)

Gen. 41:26-30 (6 in 5 verses)

Ex. 6:16-20 (6 in 5 verses)

Lev. 27:3-7 (6 in 5 verses)

Rev. 20:2-7 (6 in 6 verses)

Ether 10:29-32 (5 in 4 verses)

Lev. 25:50-54 (5 in 5 verses)

Gen. 47:9 (4 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 5:4-5 (4 in 2 verses)

Ps. 90:9-10 (4 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 27:8-28:1 (4 in 3 verses)

Gen. 5:25-28 (4 in 4 verses)

Gen. 31:38-41 (4 in 4 verses)

2 Chr. 21:19-22:2 (4 in 4 verses)

3 Ne. 2:5-8 (4 in 4 verses)

Ether 9:22-25 (4 in 4 verses)

Gen. 15:9 (3 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 2:11 (3 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 29:27 (3 in 1 verse)

Gen. 25:7-8 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 2:10-11 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 14:20-21 (3 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 29:45-46 (3 in 2 verses)

4 Ne. 1:40-41 (3 in 2 verses)

Ether 10:8-9 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 77:6-7 (3 in 2 verses)

Gen. 5:30-32 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 41:34-36 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 41:46-48 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Kgs. 8:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Kgs. 23:36-24:1 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Chr. 26:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Chr. 36:9-11 (3 in 3 verses)

Isa. 23:15-17 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 29:11-13 (3 in 3 verses)

Omni 1:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Mosiah 10:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

4 Ne. 1:20-22 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 77:10-12 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 88:108-110 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 17:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 23:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 25:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 45:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 47:28 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 7:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 25:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 4:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 4:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 4:30 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 4:35 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 4:39 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 4:43 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 4:47 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 13:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 14:10 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 16:23 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 22:42 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 8:17 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 14:2 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 15:2 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 15:33 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 16:2 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 18:2 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 21:1 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 21:19 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 22:1 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 24:18 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 3:4 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 11:17 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 12:13 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 20:31 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 21:5 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 24:1 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 25:1 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 27:1 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 29:1 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 33:1 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 33:21 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 34:1 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 36:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Eccl. 6:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 16:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 65:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 34:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 52:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 9:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Hab. 3:2 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Pet. 3:8 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 17:4 (2 in 1 verse)

4 Ne. 1:6 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 121:31 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 9:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 16:16-17:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 17:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 41:53-54 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 12:40-41 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 8:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 14:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 5:31-6:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 10:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 6:38-7:1 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 11:21-12:1 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 31:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 25:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 2:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 8:42-43 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 13:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)


1 Ne. 17:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

 17:20 And thou art like unto our father, led away by the foolish imaginations of his heart; yea, he hath led us out of the land of Jerusalem, and we have wandered in the wilderness for these many years; and our women have toiled, being big with child; and they have borne children in the wilderness and suffered all things, save it were death; and it would have been better that they had died before they came out of Jerusalem than to have suffered these afflictions.

 17:21 Behold, these many years we have suffered in the wilderness, which time we might have enjoyed our possessions and the land of our inheritance; yea, and we might have been happy.




Mosiah 6:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 6:7-7:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 16:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 5:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

4 Ne. 1:47-48 (2 in 2 verses)

Morm. 1:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 2:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 9:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 7:64-65 (2 in 2 verses)

Abr. 3:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-H 1:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 481 0 481
NT 58 0 58
BM 134 0 134
1 Ne. 9 0 9
2 Ne. 4 0 4
Jacob 4 0 4
Enos 2 0 2
Jarom 2 0 2
Omni 3 0 3
W of M 1 0 1
Mosiah 14 0 14
Alma 14 0 14
Hel. 10 0 10
3 Ne. 15 0 15
4 Ne. 15 0 15
Morm. 13 0 13
Ether 26 0 26
Moro. 2 0 2
DC 49 0 49
PGP 45 0 45
TOTAL 767 0 767

1 Ne. 10:4
Yea, even six hundred years from the time that my father left Jerusalem, a prophet would the Lord God raise up among the Jews-- even a Messiah, or, in other words, a Savior of the world.

1 Ne. 15:13
And now, the thing which our father meaneth concerning the grafting in of the natural branches through the fulness of the Gentiles, is, that in the latter days, when our seed shall have dwindled in unbelief, yea, for the space of many years, and many generations after the Messiah shall be manifested in body unto the children of men, then shall the fulness of the gospel of the Messiah come unto the Gentiles, and from the Gentiles unto the remnant of our seed--

1 Ne. 17:4
And we did sojourn for the space of many years, yea, even eight years in the wilderness.

1 Ne. 17:20
And thou art like unto our father, led away by the foolish imaginations of his heart; yea, he hath led us out of the land of Jerusalem, and we have wandered in the wilderness for these many years; and our women have toiled, being big with child; and they have borne children in the wilderness and suffered all things, save it were death; and it would have been better that they had died before they came out of Jerusalem than to have suffered these afflictions.

1 Ne. 17:21
Behold, these many years we have suffered in the wilderness, which time we might have enjoyed our possessions and the land of our inheritance; yea, and we might have been happy.

1 Ne. 18:17
Now my father, Lehi, had said many things unto them, and also unto the sons of Ishmael; but, behold, they did breathe out much threatenings against anyone that should speak for me; and my parents being stricken in years, and having suffered much grief because of their children, they were brought down, yea, even upon their sick-beds.

1 Ne. 19:8
And behold he cometh, according to the words of the angel, in six hundred years from the time my father left Jerusalem.

1 Ne. 22:26
And because of the righteousness of his people, Satan has no power; wherefore, he cannot be loosed for the space of many years; for he hath no power over the hearts of the people, for they dwell in righteousness, and the Holy One of Israel reigneth.