Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'contain' occurs 23 times in the standard works.

2 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'contain' in the standard works and contain 8.7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 1 minutes to read the entire list.

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3 Ne. 5:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

 5:8 And there had many things transpired which, in the eyes of some, would be great and marvelous; nevertheless, they cannot all be written in this book; yea, this book cannot contain even a hundredth part of what was done among so many people in the space of twenty and five years;

 5:9 But behold there are records which do contain all the proceedings of this people; and a shorter but true account was given by Nephi.




Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 5 3 8
NT 2 4 6
BM 12 13 25
1 Ne. 2 4 6
2 Ne. 0 1 1
Omni 0 1 1
W of M 1 2 3
Mosiah 3 2 5
Alma 3 2 5
Hel. 0 1 1
3 Ne. 3 0 3
DC 4 11 15
PGP 0 1 1
TOTAL 23 32 55

3 Ne. 5:8
And there had many things transpired which, in the eyes of some, would be great and marvelous; nevertheless, they cannot all be written in this book; yea, this book cannot contain even a hundredth part of what was done among so many people in the space of twenty and five years;

3 Ne. 5:9
But behold there are records which do contain all the proceedings of this people; and a shorter but true account was given by Nephi.

3 Ne. 26:7
But behold the plates of Nephi do contain the more part of the things which he taught the people.