Seminary students in the LDS Church will often memorize these Book of Mormon Scripture Mastery verses.
Below is a plain list of the phrases that repeat in 1 Nephi Chapter 2. If you wish to see this list that includes verses in which the pertinent phrases have been highlighted, please go here.
“a land” – 3 occurrences – verse 20
“a land which” – 2 occurrences – verse 20
“against him” – 2 occurrences – verses 14, 16
For a plain list of the phrases that repeat in 1 Nephi Chapter 2, without the verses and highlighted phrases, go here.
“a land” – 3 occurrences – verse 20
“a land which” – 2 occurrences – verse 20
20 And inasmuch as ye shall keep my commandments, ye shall prosper, and shall be led to a land of promise; yea, even a land which I have prepared for you; yea, a land which is choice above all other lands.
“against him” – 2 occurrences – verses 14, 16
14 And it came to pass that my father did speak unto them in the valley of Lemuel, with power, being filled with the Spirit, until their frames did shake before him. And he did confound them, that they durst not utter against him; wherefore, they did as he commanded them.
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16 And it came to pass that I, Nephi, being exceedingly young, nevertheless being large in stature, and also having great desires to know of the mysteries of God, wherefore, I did cry unto the Lord; and behold he did visit me, and did soften my heart that I did believe all the words which had been spoken by my father; wherefore, I did not rebel against him like unto my brothers.
Below is a plain list of the phrases that repeat in 1 Nephi Chapter 1. If you wish to see this list that includes verses in which the pertinent phrases have been highlighted, please go here.
“account of” – 3 occurrences – verses 16, 17
“all his” – 2 occurrences – verses 4, 5
all the” – 2 occurrences – verses 1, 14
“and also the” – 2 occurrences – verse 19
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For a plain list of the phrases that repeat in 1 Nephi Chapter 1, without the verses and highlighted phrases, go here.
“account of” – 3 occurrences – verses 16, 17
16 And now I, Nephi, do not make a full account of the things which my father hath written, for he hath written many things which he saw in visions and in dreams; and he also hath written many things which he prophesied and spake unto his children, of which I shall not make a full account.
17 But I shall make an account of my proceedings in my days. Behold, I make an abridgment of the record of my father, upon plates which I have made with mine own hands; wherefore, after I have abridged the record of my father then will I make an account of mine own life.
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In an earlier post I asked the question of what ancient engravings on gold plates might look like.
Kristiina Sorenson was kind enough to leave a comment and a link to another picture/site that helps answer the question.
Her comment reads:
The Louvre Museum in Paris has some ancient plates on display. Some are gold; others are made from other metals. They were discovered during the excavation of the palace of Sargon II, the Assyrian king from 721-705 BC. The site is known as Khorsabad, for the modern-day Iraqi city nearby.
Here’s the image shown at the linked site:
Thank you Kristiina for bringing attention to this!
For the Isaiah passages and chapters that appear in the Book of Mormon, there are now web-pages that will make it easy to compare the Hebrew, King James translation and Book of Mormon texts.
Some internet browsers handle Hebrew better than others. Apple’s Safari seems to work best (while Mozilla Firefox and Google’s Chrome create some problems).
Much credit should be given to Victor Ludlow and the scripture reference list he put together, which came in very handy as a resource.
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The Hebrew Bible book of Malachi has only 3 chapters. In the King James Bible, this chapter three is divided into a chapter 3 and a chapter 4.
For the sake of comparison, I have entered the Hebrew verses and the King James Bible verses alongside the verses of 3 Nephi Chapter 24 and 3 Nephi Chapter 25.
3 Nephi Chapter 24 (comparable to KJV Malachi Chapter 3 and Hebrew Bible Malachi Chapter 3) – verse 1
3 Nephi Chapter 25 (comparable to KJV Malachi Chapter 4 and Hebrew Bible Malachi Chapter 3) – verse 1
It makes sense to read 3 Nephi Chapter 24 and 3 Nephi Chapter 25 as if they were a single chapter – they clearly fit together as a single document or revelation.
In my experience so far, the Hebrew text/verses appears best in Apple’s Safari browser (for either Apple or PC computers). Other browsers seem to distort the text or remove crucial letters and diacritics.
What would ancient engravings in gold look like?
The 4/6/2010 article at Law.com which provided the pictures shown above is titled “German Museum Loses Attempt to Reclaim Artifact From Estate” – and it reads:
The gold tablet was found during an excavation around the city of Ashur, now Qual’at Serouat, Iraq, by a team of German archeologists led by Walter Andrae. The inscribed tablet, which was discovered in the foundation of the Ishta Temple, is actually a construction document, according to the judge. It dates to the reign of the Assyrian King Tukulti-Ninurta I (1243-1207 BCE) who expanded the Assyrian empire but was later killed by his son.
At the least, this is proof that ancient peoples in the Middle East engraved records in gold and that such records, even though they are engraved in a precious metal, could survive calamities and last up until modern times.
Though very small, the pictured engravings are not only beautiful, but helpful as an example of what the engravings on the gold plates might have looked like to Joseph Smith and to the other eleven witnesses of the gold plates.