Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'firstborn' occurs 138 times in the standard works.

53 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'firstborn' in the standard works and contain 38.4% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 20 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ex. 13:13-15 (5 in 3 verses)

Deut. 21:15-17 (5 in 3 verses)

Ex. 11:5 (4 in 1 verse)

Ex. 12:29 (4 in 1 verse)

Num. 3:12-13 (4 in 2 verses)

Num. 8:16-18 (4 in 3 verses)

Num. 3:40-43 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Chr. 2:25-27 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Chr. 5:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 68:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

Josh. 17:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 19:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 38:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 4:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)


Num. 3:45-46 (2 in 2 verses)

 3:45 Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am the Lord.

 3:46 And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and threescore and thirteen of the firstborn of the children of Israel, which are more than the Levites;




2 Ne. 2:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 93:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 110 0 110
NT 7 0 7
BM 6 0 6
DC 14 0 14
PGP 1 0 1
TOTAL 138 0 138

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