Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'pollute' occurs 18 times in the standard works.

4 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'pollute' in the standard works and contain 22.2% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 2 minutes to read the entire list.

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D&C 103:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 7:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 11 39 50
Ex. 0 1 1
Num. 2 0 2
2 Kgs. 0 1 1
2 Chr. 0 1 1
Ezra 0 1 1
Neh. 0 1 1
Ps. 0 1 1
Isa. 0 2 2
Jer. 1 4 5
Lam. 0 2 2
Ezek. 7 16 23
Dan. 1 0 1
Hosea 0 2 2
Amos 0 1 1
Micah 0 1 1
Zeph. 0 2 2
Mal. 0 3 3
NT 0 1 1
BM 0 5 5
DC 7 3 10
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 18 48 66

Num. 18:32
And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.

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.

Jer. 7:30
For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the Lord: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.

Ezek. 7:21
And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.

Ezek. 7:22
My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.

Ezek. 13:19
And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?

Ezek. 20:31
For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord God, I will not be inquired of by you.

Ezek. 20:39
As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord God; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.

Ezek. 39:7
So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.

Ezek. 44:7
In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.

Dan. 11:31
And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.