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)

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 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.