Unit 1

in the

34 occurrences in 28 verses



1 Nephi 1:1, 2, 4, 8, 10, 14, 15, 19,

1 Nephi 2:5, 6, 8, 11, 14, 24,

1 Nephi 3:2, 9, 14, 15, 18, 27,

1 Nephi 4:2, 14, 20, 33,

1 Nephi 5:2, 5, 6, 22



1 Nephi 1:1

I, Nephi, having been born of goodly parents,

therefore I was taught somewhat in all the learning of my father;

and having seen many afflictions in the course of my days,

nevertheless, having been highly favored of the Lord in all my days;

yea, having had a great knowledge of the goodness and the mysteries of God,

therefore I make a record of my proceedings in my days.



1 Nephi 1:2

Yea, I make a record in the language of my father,

which consists of the learning of the Jews and the language of the Egyptians.



1 Nephi 1:4

For it came to pass in the commencement of the first year

of the reign of Zedekiah, king of Judah,

(my father, Lehi, having dwelt at Jerusalem in all his days);

and in that same year there came many prophets, prophesying unto the people

that they must repent, or the great city Jerusalem must be destroyed.



1 Nephi 1:8

And being thus overcome with the Spirit,

he was carried away in a vision,

even that he saw the heavens open,

and he thought he saw God sitting upon his throne,

surrounded with numberless concourses of angels

in the attitude of singing and praising their God.



1 Nephi 1:10

And he also saw twelve others following him,

and their brightness did exceed that of the stars in the firmament.



1 Nephi 1:14

And it came to pass that when my father had read

and seen many great and marvelous things,

he did exclaim many things unto the Lord; such as:

Great and marvelous are thy works, O Lord God Almighty!

Thy throne is high in the heavens,

and thy power, and goodness, and mercy are over all the inhabitants of the earth;

and, because thou art merciful,

thou wilt not suffer those who come unto thee that they shall perish!



1 Nephi 1:15

And after this manner was the language of my father in the praising of his God;

for his soul did rejoice, and his whole heart was filled,

because of the things which he had seen,

yea, which the Lord had shown unto him.



1 Nephi 1:19

And it came to pass that the Jews did mock him

because of the things which he testified of them;

for he truly testified of their wickedness and their abominations;

and he testified that the things which he saw and heard,

and also the things which he read in the book,

manifested plainly of the coming of a Messiah,

and also the redemption of the world.



1 Nephi 2:5

And he came down by the borders near the shore of the Red Sea;

and he traveled in the wilderness in the borders which are nearer the Red Sea;

and he did travel in the wilderness with his family,

which consisted of my mother, Sariah, and my elder brothers,

who were Laman, Lemuel, and Sam.



1 Nephi 2:6

And it came to pass that when he had traveled three days in the wilderness,

he pitched his tent in a valley by the side of a river of water.



1 Nephi 2:8

And it came to pass that he called the name of the river, Laman,

and it emptied into the Red Sea;

and the valley was in the borders near the mouth thereof.



1 Nephi 2:11

Now this he spake because of the stiffneckedness of Laman and Lemuel;

for behold they did murmur in many things against their father,

because he was a visionary man,

and had led them out of the land of Jerusalem,

to leave the land of their inheritance,

and their gold, and their silver, and their precious things,

to perish in the wilderness.

And this they said he had done

because of the foolish imaginations of his heart.



1 Nephi 2:14

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.



1 Nephi 2:24

And if it so be that they rebel against me,

they shall be a scourge unto thy seed,

to stir them up in the ways of remembrance.



1 Nephi 3:2

And it came to pass that he spake unto me, saying:

Behold I have dreamed a dream,

in the which the Lord hath commanded me

that thou and thy brethren shall return to Jerusalem.



1 Nephi 3:9

And I, Nephi, and my brethren took our journey in the wilderness, with our tents,

to go up to the land of Jerusalem.



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 3:18

For behold, they have rejected the words of the prophets.

Wherefore, if my father should dwell in the land

after he hath been commanded to flee out of the land,

behold, he would also perish.

Wherefore, it must needs be that he flee out of the land.



1 Nephi 3:27

And it came to pass that we fled into the wilderness,

and the servants of Laban did not overtake us,

and we hid ourselves in the cavity of a rock.



1 Nephi 4:2

Therefore let us go up;

let us be strong like unto Moses;

for he truly spake unto the waters of the Red Sea

and they divided hither and thither,

and our fathers came through, out of captivity, on dry ground,

and the armies of Pharaoh did follow

and were drowned in the waters of the Red Sea.



1 Nephi 4:14

And now, when I, Nephi, had heard these words,

I remembered the words of the Lord

which he spake unto me in the wilderness,

saying that: Inasmuch as thy seed shall keep my commandments,

they shall prosper in the land of promise.



1 Nephi 4:20

And after I had done this, I went forth unto the treasury of Laban.

And as I went forth towards the treasury of Laban,

behold, I saw the servant of Laban who had the keys of the treasury.

And I commanded him in the voice of Laban,

that he should go with me into the treasury.



1 Nephi 4:33

And I spake unto him, even with an oath, that he need not fear;

that he should be a free man like unto us

if he would go down in the wilderness with us.



1 Nephi 5:2

For she had supposed that we had perished in the wilderness;

and she also had complained against my father,

telling him that he was a visionary man; saying:

Behold thou hast led us forth from the land of our inheritance,

and my sons are no more, and we perish in the wilderness.



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.



1 Nephi 5:6

And after this manner of language

did my father, Lehi, comfort my mother, Sariah, concerning us,

while we journeyed in the wilderness up to the land of Jerusalem,

to obtain the record of the Jews.



1 Nephi 5:22

Wherefore, it was wisdom in the Lord that we should carry them with us,

as we journeyed in the wilderness towards the land of promise.