Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'multiply' occurs 81 times in the standard works.

16 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'multiply' in the standard works and contain 19.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 5 minutes to read the entire list.

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Deut. 17:16-17 (4 in 2 verses)

Gen. 1:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 9:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 2:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Abr. 4:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 36:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 132:55-56 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 44 1 45
NT 2 1 3
BM 12 0 12
DC 13 0 13
PGP 10 0 10
Moses 6 0 6
Abr. 4 0 4
TOTAL 81 2 83

Moses 2:22
And I, God, blessed them, saying: Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the sea; and let fowl multiply in the earth;

Moses 2:28
And I, God, blessed them, and said unto them: Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Moses 4:22
Unto the woman, I, the Lord God, said: I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception. In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children, and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

Moses 5:2
And Adam knew his wife, and she bare unto him sons and daughters, and they began to multiply and to replenish the earth.

Moses 8:14
And when these men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, the sons of men saw that those daughters were fair, and they took them wives, even as they chose.

Abr. 3:14
And it was in the night time when the Lord spake these words unto me: I will multiply thee, and thy seed after thee, like unto these; and if thou canst count the number of sands, so shall be the number of thy seeds.

Abr. 4:22
And the Gods said: We will bless them, and cause them to be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas or great waters; and cause the fowl to multiply in the earth.

Abr. 4:28
And the Gods said: We will bless them. And the Gods said: We will cause them to be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it, and to have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.