Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'mayest' occurs 142 times in the standard works.

29 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'mayest' in the standard works and contain 20.4% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 11 minutes to read the entire list.

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Deut. 30:16-20 (5 in 5 verses)

Rev. 3:18 (3 in 1 verse)

Josh. 1:7-8 (3 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 16:54 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 3:4 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 6:11 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 100:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 28:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 11:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 23:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 6:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)


Moses 3:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

 3:16 And I, the Lord God, commanded the man, saying: Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat,

 3:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it, nevertheless, thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee; but, remember that I forbid it, for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.




Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 101 0 101
NT 13 0 13
BM 9 0 9
DC 15 0 15
PGP 4 0 4
Moses 3 0 3
Abr. 1 0 1
TOTAL 142 0 142

Moses 3:16
And I, the Lord God, commanded the man, saying: Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat,

Moses 3:17
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it, nevertheless, thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee; but, remember that I forbid it, for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Moses 5:9
And in that day the Holy Ghost fell upon Adam, which beareth record of the Father and the Son, saying: I am the Only Begotten of the Father from the beginning, henceforth and forever, that as thou hast fallen thou mayest be redeemed, and all mankind, even as many as will.