Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'leave' occurs 155 times in the standard works.

12 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'leave' in the standard works and contain 7.7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 4 minutes to read the entire list.

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Gen. 44:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Amos 5:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Mark 12:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 60:25 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 4:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 19:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 90 133 223
Gen. 6 3 9
Ex. 2 28 30
Lev. 5 18 23
Num. 4 7 11
Deut. 2 14 16
Josh. 1 4 5
Judg. 2 4 6
Ruth 2 0 2
1 Sam. 5 1 6
2 Sam. 1 0 1
1 Kgs. 1 2 3
2 Kgs. 6 3 9
1 Chr. 1 1 2
2 Chr. 0 4 4
Ezra 2 1 3
Neh. 4 0 4
Job 3 6 9
Ps. 7 9 16
Prov. 2 2 4
Eccl. 3 1 4
Isa. 2 3 5
Jer. 10 3 13
Lam. 0 2 2
Ezek. 8 7 15
Dan. 3 5 8
Hosea 1 1 2
Joel 1 0 1
Amos 3 1 4
Obad. 1 0 1
Hab. 0 1 1
Zeph. 1 0 1
Zech. 0 2 2
Mal. 1 0 1
NT 25 39 64
BM 20 9 29
DC 17 9 26
PGP 3 4 7
TOTAL 155 194 349

Gen. 2:24
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Gen. 28:15
And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.

Gen. 33:15
And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord.

Gen. 42:33
And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men; leave one of your brethren here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone:

Gen. 44:22
And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.