Unit 1
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10 occurrences in 9 verses
1 Nephi 1:17, 20,
1 Nephi 2:18,
1 Nephi 3:5, 14, 15,
1 Nephi 4:10,
1 Nephi 5:4, 5
1 Nephi 1:17
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.
1 Nephi 1:20
And when the Jews heard these things they were angry with him;
yea, even as with the prophets of old,
whom they had cast out, and stoned, and slain;
and they also sought his life, that they might take it away.
but behold, I, Nephi, will show unto you
that the tender mercies of the Lord are over all those
whom he hath chosen, because of their faith,
to make them mighty even unto the power of deliverance.
1 Nephi 2:18
but, behold, Laman and Lemuel would not hearken unto my words;
and being grieved because of the hardness of their hearts
I cried unto the Lord for them.
1 Nephi 3:5
And now, behold thy brothers murmur,
saying it is a hard thing which I have required of them;
but behold I have not required it of them,
but it is a commandment of the Lord.
1 Nephi 3:14
but Laman fled out of his presence,
and told the things which Laban had done,
unto us.
And we began to be exceedingly sorrowful,
and my brethren were about to return unto my father in the wilderness.
1 Nephi 3:15
but behold I said unto them that:
As the Lord liveth, and as we live,
we will not go down unto our father in the wilderness
until we have accomplished the thing which the Lord hath commanded us.
1 Nephi 4:10
And it came to pass that
I was constrained by the Spirit that I should kill Laban;
but I said in my heart:
Never at any time have I shed the blood of man.
And I shrunk and would that I might not slay him.
1 Nephi 5:4
And it had come to pass that my father spake unto her, saying:
I know that I am a visionary man;
for if I had not seen the things of God in a vision
I should not have known the goodness of God,
but had tarried at Jerusalem, and had perished with my brethren.
1 Nephi 5:5
but behold, I have obtained a land of promise, in the which things I do rejoice;
yea, and I know that the Lord will deliver my sons out of the hands of Laban,
and bring them down again unto us in the wilderness.
