Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'eight' occurs 106 times in the standard works.

18 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'eight' in the standard works and contain 17% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 8 minutes to read the entire list.

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Moses 6:18-21 (5 in 4 verses)

JS-H 1:59-60 (3 in 2 verses)

Gen. 5:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Neh. 7:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Neh. 7:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Neh. 7:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Neh. 7:44-45 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 74 189 263
NT 6 19 25
BM 6 50 56
DC 8 10 18
PGP 12 7 19
TOTAL 106 275 381

D&C 20:1
The rise of the Church of Christ in these last days, being one thousand eight hundred and thirty years since the coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in the flesh, it being regularly organized and established agreeable to the laws of our country, by the will and commandments of God, in the fourth month, and on the sixth day of the month which is called April--

D&C 68:25
And again, inasmuch as parents have children in Zion, or in any of her stakes which are organized, that teach them not to understand the doctrine of repentance, faith in Christ the Son of the living God, and of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of the hands, when eight years old, the sin be upon the heads of the parents.

D&C 68:27
And their children shall be baptized for the remission of their sins when eight years old, and receive the laying on of the hands.

D&C 76:11
We, Joseph Smith, Jun., and Sidney Rigdon, being in the Spirit on the sixteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two--

D&C 84:28
For he was baptized while he was yet in his childhood, and was ordained by the angel of God at the time he was eight days old unto this power, to overthrow the kingdom of the Jews, and to make straight the way of the Lord before the face of his people, to prepare them for the coming of the Lord, in whose hand is given all power.

D&C 107:87
Also the duty of the president over the Priesthood of Aaron is to preside over forty-eight priests, and sit in council with them, to teach them the duties of their office, as is given in the covenants--

D&C 135:6
Hyrum Smith was forty-four years old in February, 1844, and Joseph Smith was thirty-eight in December, 1843; and henceforward their names will be classed among the martyrs of religion; and the reader in every nation will be reminded that the Book of Mormon, and this book of Doctrine and Covenants of the church, cost the best blood of the nineteenth century to bring them forth for the salvation of a ruined world; and that if the fire can scathe a green tree for the glory of God, how easy it will burn up the dry trees to purify the vineyard of corruption. They lived for glory; they died for glory; and glory is their eternal reward. From age to age shall their names go down to posterity as gems for the sanctified.

D&C 138:9
"Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water." (1 Peter 3:18-20.)