Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'clean' occurs 153 times in the standard works.

65 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'clean' in the standard works and contain 42.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 27 minutes to read the entire list.

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Lev. 13:37-41 (5 in 5 verses)

Lev. 14:7-11 (5 in 5 verses)

Num. 19:9-12 (4 in 4 verses)

Num. 19:18-19 (3 in 2 verses)

John 13:10-11 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 5:12-14 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 7:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 7:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 8:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 13:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 13:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 13:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 13:34 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 20:25 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 20:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 36:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 11:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 13:58-59 (2 in 2 verses)


Num. 31:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

 31:23 Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water.

 31:24 And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.




Josh. 3:17-4:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 15:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 8:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 23:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 1:40-41 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 5:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 88:74-75 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 88:85-86 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 114 264 378
Gen. 7 0 7
Ex. 0 1 1
Lev. 46 154 200
Num. 14 27 41
Deut. 6 11 17
Josh. 3 2 5
Judg. 0 3 3
1 Sam. 2 0 2
2 Sam. 0 3 3
2 Kgs. 4 0 4
2 Chr. 1 8 9
Ezra 0 2 2
Neh. 0 3 3
Job 8 4 12
Ps. 6 6 12
Prov. 3 1 4
Eccl. 1 1 2
Isa. 6 6 12
Jer. 1 2 3
Lam. 0 1 1
Ezek. 4 18 22
Dan. 0 1 1
Hosea 0 1 1
Joel 1 2 3
Amos 0 1 1
Hag. 0 4 4
Zech. 1 2 3
NT 19 61 80
BM 6 33 39
DC 13 19 32
PGP 1 3 4
TOTAL 153 380 533

Num. 5:19
And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:

Num. 5:28
And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.

Num. 6:7
He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head.

Num. 6:9
And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.

Num. 8:6
Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.

Num. 8:7
And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean.

Num. 8:15
And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them for an offering.

Num. 8:21
And the Levites were purified, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them as an offering before the Lord; and Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse them.

Num. 9:10
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the Lord.

Num. 9:13
But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the Lord in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.

Num. 18:11
And this is thine; the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it.

Num. 18:13
And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring unto the Lord, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thine house shall eat of it.

Num. 18:15
Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring unto the Lord, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem.

Num. 19:7
Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even.

Num. 19:8
And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.

Num. 19:9
And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin.

Num. 19:10
And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever.

Num. 19:11
He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.

Num. 19:12
He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.

Num. 19:13
Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the Lord; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.

Num. 19:14
This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.

Num. 19:15
And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean.

Num. 19:16
And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

Num. 19:17
And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:

Num. 19:18
And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:

Num. 19:19
And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.

Num. 19:20
But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the Lord: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.

Num. 19:21
And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even.

Num. 19:22
And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.

Num. 31:23
Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water.

Num. 31:24
And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.

Num. 35:33
So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.