Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'bread' occurs 391 times in the standard works.

144 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'bread' in the standard works and contain 36.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 59 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Sam. 21:3-6 (7 in 4 verses)

John 6:31-35 (6 in 5 verses)

3 Ne. 18:1-6 (6 in 6 verses)

John 6:48-51 (5 in 4 verses)

1 Kgs. 13:15-19 (5 in 5 verses)

Ezek. 4:13-17 (5 in 5 verses)


Deut. 16:3-4 (4 in 2 verses)

 16:3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.

 16:4 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.




Ex. 12:15-18 (4 in 4 verses)

Ex. 29:23 (3 in 1 verse)

Lev. 26:26 (3 in 1 verse)

Ex. 13:6-7 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 13:22-23 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 10:16-17 (3 in 2 verses)

Gen. 47:15-17 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 47:17-19 (3 in 3 verses)

Num. 6:15-17 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Cor. 11:26-28 (3 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 20:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 31:54 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 23:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 34:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 8:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 23:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 21:5 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 2:36 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 17:6 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 4:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 37:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Hosea 9:4 (2 in 1 verse)

John 6:58 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 41:54-55 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 43:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 47:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 16:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 8:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 21:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 8:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 10:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 30:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 12:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 16:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 13:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 21:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Neh. 5:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 12:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 4:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 16:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 16:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 6:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 8:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 4:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 20:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 8:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 20:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 281 102 383
Gen. 25 2 27
Ex. 34 26 60
Lev. 23 0 23
Num. 11 1 12
Deut. 12 2 14
Josh. 2 0 2
Judg. 7 1 8
Ruth 2 0 2
1 Sam. 21 1 22
2 Sam. 10 0 10
1 Kgs. 19 9 28
2 Kgs. 8 0 8
1 Chr. 2 3 5
2 Chr. 5 10 15
Ezra 2 1 3
Neh. 5 1 6
Job 6 2 8
Ps. 14 1 15
Prov. 14 0 14
Eccl. 3 0 3
Isa. 15 1 16
Jer. 8 0 8
Lam. 4 0 4
Ezek. 19 37 56
Dan. 1 1 2
Hosea 3 0 3
Amos 3 0 3
Obad. 1 0 1
Hab. 0 1 1
Hag. 1 0 1
Zech. 0 2 2
Mal. 1 0 1
NT 80 8 88
BM 22 1 23
DC 6 0 6
PGP 2 0 2
TOTAL 391 111 502

Deut. 2:5
Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.

Deut. 3:11
For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.

Deut. 8:3
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.

Deut. 8:9
A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.

Deut. 9:9
When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:

Deut. 9:18
And I fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.

Deut. 16:3
Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.

Deut. 16:4
And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.

Deut. 16:8
Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work therein.

Deut. 16:16
Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the Lord empty:

Deut. 23:4
Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.

Deut. 29:6
Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the Lord your God.