Sunday, January 21, 2018

Book of Mormon Books: Length vs LDS Conference Citations

As a follow up to my previous posts on the Old Testament and New Testament, here is the same analysis for the Book of Mormon:



And the citation/length ratio shows which books are more heavily cited compared to their length:

Book Citation/Length
Moroni           3.4
Enos            2.2
2 Ne            1.4
3 Ne            1.2
Mos            1.1

You will notice that, for the most part, the number of citations per book is relatively on par with the number of verse in the book. Overall, the Book of Mormon has a more even distribution of "scripture gold" than what is seen in the Old Testament or New Testament. However, going a step further, I wanted to see what chapters in the Book of Mormon were the most cited. Below is a list of the top 50 cited chapters in the Book of Mormon in order of citation from greatest to least (# citations in parentheses). Next time you want to read the Book of Mormon, try reading in citation order rather than from beginning to end!

2 Ne 2 (408)
Moroni 7 (357)
Moroni 10 (313)
Mosiah 4 (259)
Alma 5 (258)
2 Ne 31 (258)
3 Ne 11 (255)
3 Ne 27 (249)
Alma 34 (238)
Mosiah 3 (234)
2 Ne 9 (230)
Mosiah 18 (208)
Alma 42 (198)
Alma 32 (194)
Ether 12 (175)
Mosiah 2 (159)
2 Ne 25 (155)
3 Ne 18 (153)
Alma 37 (145)
Alma 7 (144)
3 Ne 17 (144)
Mosiah 5 (142)
Helaman 5 (135)
1 Ne 8 (133)
2 Ne 28 (130)
2 Ne 32 (122)
3 Ne 12 (119)
1 Ne 3 (117)
Alma 36 (115)
Jacob 4 (111)
1 Ne 11 (107)
Alma 41 (103)
Enos 1 (100)
3 Ne 9 (99)
1 Ne 17 (98)
2 Ne 26 (92)
Alma 13 (91)
Alma 12 (91)
Mosiah 27 (91)
Alma 26 (90)
Moroni 6 (83)
1 Ne 15 (77)
Moroni 8 (74)
Alma 29 (73)
Jacob 2 (71)
2 Ne 1 (68)
Alma 39 (67)
Mormon 8 (67)
4 Ne 1 (66)

Sources:
For Book of Mormon verse count see http://scripturetools.net/resources

For Book of Mormon conference citations see http://scriptures.byu.edu