Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'bury' occurs 48 times in the standard works.

24 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'bury' in the standard works and contain 50% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 11 minutes to read the entire list.

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Gen. 50:5-7 (4 in 3 verses)

Gen. 23:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 23:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 19:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 47:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 9:34-35 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 39:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 8:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 9:59-60 (2 in 2 verses)


Alma 24:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

 24:16 And now, my brethren, if our brethren seek to destroy us, behold, we will hide away our swords, yea, even we will bury them deep in the earth, that they may be kept bright, as a testimony that we have never used them, at the last day; and if our brethren destroy us, behold, we shall go to our God and shall be saved.

 24:17 And now it came to pass that when the king had made an end of these sayings, and all the people were assembled together, they took their swords, and all the weapons which were used for the shedding of man's blood, and they did bury them up deep in the earth.




Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 33 9 42
NT 6 2 8
BM 8 3 11
Mosiah 2 0 2
Alma 5 3 8
Ether 1 0 1
DC 1 0 1
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 48 14 62

Alma 3:1
And it came to pass that the Nephites who were not slain by the weapons of war, after having buried those who had been slain-- now the number of the slain were not numbered, because of the greatness of their number-- after they had finished burying their dead they all returned to their lands, and to their houses, and their wives, and their children.

Alma 19:1
And it came to pass that after two days and two nights they were about to take his body and lay it in a sepulchre, which they had made for the purpose of burying their dead.

Alma 19:8
And he said unto the queen: He is not dead, but he sleepeth in God, and on the morrow he shall rise again; therefore bury him not.

Alma 24:16
And now, my brethren, if our brethren seek to destroy us, behold, we will hide away our swords, yea, even we will bury them deep in the earth, that they may be kept bright, as a testimony that we have never used them, at the last day; and if our brethren destroy us, behold, we shall go to our God and shall be saved.

Alma 24:17
And now it came to pass that when the king had made an end of these sayings, and all the people were assembled together, they took their swords, and all the weapons which were used for the shedding of man's blood, and they did bury them up deep in the earth.

Alma 25:14
And they did also bury their weapons of war, according as their brethren had, and they began to be a righteous people; and they did walk in the ways of the Lord, and did observe to keep his commandments and his statutes.

Alma 53:1
And it came to pass that they did set guards over the prisoners of the Lamanites, and did compel them to go forth and bury their dead, yea, and also the dead of the Nephites who were slain; and Moroni placed men over them to guard them while they should perform their labors.

Alma 53:3
And it came to pass that after the Lamanites had finished burying their dead and also the dead of the Nephites, they were marched back into the land Bountiful; and Teancum, by the orders of Moroni, caused that they should commence laboring in digging a ditch round about the land, or the city, Bountiful.