Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'twelve' occurs 264 times in the standard works.

112 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'twelve' in the standard works and contain 42.4% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 41 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Chr. 25:9-31 (23 in 23 verses)

Rev. 7:5-8 (12 in 4 verses)

Num. 7:84-87 (8 in 4 verses)

1 Ne. 12:7-10 (6 in 4 verses)

Rev. 21:12-16 (6 in 5 verses)

Morm. 3:18-19 (4 in 2 verses)

D&C 102:12-13 (4 in 2 verses)

D&C 18:27 (3 in 1 verse)

Josh. 4:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 11:34-36 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 13:39-41 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 107:33-35 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 24:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 28:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 39:14 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 2:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezra 8:35 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 43:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 19:28 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 21:21 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 12:1 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 107:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 4:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 52:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 10:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 8:42-43 (2 in 2 verses)

John 6:70-71 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 19:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 124:127-128 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 113 0 113
Gen. 8 0 8
Ex. 7 0 7
Lev. 1 0 1
Num. 17 0 17
Deut. 1 0 1
Josh. 12 0 12
Judg. 2 0 2
2 Sam. 4 0 4
1 Kgs. 11 0 11
2 Kgs. 2 0 2
1 Chr. 26 0 26
2 Chr. 7 0 7
Ezra 6 0 6
Neh. 2 0 2
Esth. 1 0 1
Jer. 2 0 2
Ezek. 3 0 3
Dan. 1 0 1
NT 75 0 75
BM 32 0 32
DC 43 0 43
PGP 1 0 1
TOTAL 264 0 264

Num. 1:44
These are those that were numbered, which Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: each one was for the house of his fathers.

Num. 7:3
And they brought their offering before the Lord, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for two of the princes, and for each one an ox: and they brought them before the tabernacle.

Num. 7:84
This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold:

Num. 7:86
The golden spoons were twelve, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary: all the gold of the spoons was an hundred and twenty shekels.

Num. 7:87
All the oxen for the burnt offering were twelve bullocks, the rams twelve, the lambs of the first year twelve, with their meat offering: and the kids of the goats for sin offering twelve.

Num. 17:2
Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers, of all their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve rods: write thou every man's name upon his rod.

Num. 17:6
And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, and every one of their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one, according to their fathers' houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.

Num. 29:17
And on the second day ye shall offer twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:

Num. 31:5
So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

Num. 31:33
And threescore and twelve thousand beeves,

Num. 31:38
And the beeves were thirty and six thousand; of which the Lord's tribute was threescore and twelve.

Num. 33:9
And they removed from Marah, and came unto Elim: and in Elim were twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm trees; and they pitched there.