Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'ground' occurs 269 times in the standard works.

39 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'ground' in the standard works and contain 14.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 17 minutes to read the entire list.

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Lam. 2:9-10 (3 in 2 verses)

Gen. 2:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 17:12-14 (3 in 3 verses)

Moses 3:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

Abr. 5:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 4:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 3:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 29:4 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 26:16 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 89:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 4:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 6:39-40 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 23:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 30:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 19:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 5:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 5:43-44 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 164 1 165
NT 28 3 31
BM 47 4 51
DC 10 1 11
PGP 20 0 20
Moses 13 0 13
Abr. 5 0 5
JS-H 2 0 2
TOTAL 269 9 278

Moses 3:5
And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew. For I, the Lord God, created all things, of which I have spoken, spiritually, before they were naturally upon the face of the earth. For I, the Lord God, had not caused it to rain upon the face of the earth. And I, the Lord God, had created all the children of men; and not yet a man to till the ground; for in heaven created I them; and there was not yet flesh upon the earth, neither in the water, neither in the air;

Moses 3:6
But I, the Lord God, spake, and there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

Moses 3:7
And I, the Lord God, formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul, the first flesh upon the earth, the first man also; nevertheless, all things were before created; but spiritually were they created and made according to my word.

Moses 3:9
And out of the ground made I, the Lord God, to grow every tree, naturally, that is pleasant to the sight of man; and man could behold it. And it became also a living soul. For it was spiritual in the day that I created it; for it remaineth in the sphere in which I, God, created it, yea, even all things which I prepared for the use of man; and man saw that it was good for food. And I, the Lord God, planted the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and also the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Moses 3:19
And out of the ground I, the Lord God, formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and commanded that they should come unto Adam, to see what he would call them; and they were also living souls; for I, God, breathed into them the breath of life, and commanded that whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that should be the name thereof.

Moses 4:23
And unto Adam, I, the Lord God, said: Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the fruit of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying-- Thou shalt not eat of it, cursed shall be the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.

Moses 4:25
By the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou shalt return unto the ground-- for thou shalt surely die-- for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou wast, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Moses 4:29
Therefore I, the Lord God, will send him forth from the Garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken;

Moses 5:17
And she again conceived and bare his brother Abel. And Abel hearkened unto the voice of the Lord. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

Moses 5:19
And in process of time it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord.

Moses 5:35
And the Lord said: What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood cries unto me from the ground.

Moses 5:37
When thou tillest the ground it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength. A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

Moses 8:9
And he called his name Noah, saying: This son shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed.