Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'third' occurs 238 times in the standard works.

66 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'third' in the standard works and contain 27.7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 20 minutes to read the entire list.

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Rev. 8:7-12 (12 in 6 verses)

2 Sam. 18:2 (3 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 5:2 (3 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 5:12 (3 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 11:5-6 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 23:4-5 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 98:28-30 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 19:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 19:12 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 12:12 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 18:34 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 1:13 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 27:5 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 10:12 (2 in 1 verse)

John 21:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 6:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 3:1 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:40 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:47 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 19:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 7:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 19:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 15:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Zech. 13:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 11:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 125 0 125
NT 57 1 58
BM 25 0 25
DC 21 0 21
PGP 10 0 10
Moses 2 0 2
Abr. 1 0 1
JS-H 6 0 6
A of F 1 0 1
TOTAL 238 1 239

Moses 2:13
And the evening and the morning were the third day.

Moses 3:14
And the name of the third river was Hiddekel; that which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river was the Euphrates.

Abr. 4:13
And it came to pass that they numbered the days; from the evening until the morning they called night; and it came to pass, from the morning until the evening they called day; and it was the third time.

JS-H 1:3
I was born in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five, on the twenty-third day of December, in the town of Sharon, Windsor county, State of Vermont ... My father, Joseph Smith, Sen., left the State of Vermont, and moved to Palmyra, Ontario (now Wayne) county, in the State of New York, when I was in my tenth year, or thereabouts. In about four years after my father's arrival in Palmyra, he moved with his family into Manchester in the same county of Ontario--

JS-H 1:36
After telling me these things, he commenced quoting the prophecies of the Old Testament. He first quoted part of the third chapter of Malachi; and he quoted also the fourth or last chapter of the same prophecy, though with a little variation from the way it reads in our Bibles. Instead of quoting the first verse as it reads in our books, he quoted it thus:

JS-H 1:40
In addition to these, he quoted the eleventh chapter of Isaiah, saying that it was about to be fulfilled. He quoted also the third chapter of Acts, twenty-second and twenty-third verses, precisely as they stand in our New Testament. He said that that prophet was Christ; but the day had not yet come when "they who would not hear his voice should be cut off from among the people", but soon would come.

JS-H 1:47
After this third visit, he again ascended into heaven as before, and I was again left to ponder on the strangeness of what I had just experienced; when almost immediately after the heavenly messenger had ascended from me for the third time, the cock crowed, and I found that day was approaching, so that our interviews must have occupied the whole of that night.

A of F 1:4
We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel are: first, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; second, Repentance; third, Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins; fourth, Laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost.