Unit 1
my father
37 occurrences in 36 verses
1 Nephi 1:1, 2, 4, 5, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18,
1 Nephi 2:1, 2, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16,
1 Nephi 3:1, 7, 8, 12, 14, 18, 28,
1 Nephi 4:34,
1 Nephi 5:2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 14, 16, 17, 20
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 1:5
Wherefore it came to pass that
my father, Lehi, as he went forth prayed unto the Lord,
yea, even with all his heart, in behalf of his people.
1 Nephi 1:11
And they came down and went forth upon the face of the earth;
and the first came and stood before my father,
and gave unto him a book, and bade him that he should read.
1 Nephi 1:13
And he read, saying: Wo, wo, unto Jerusalem,
for I have seen thine abominations!
Yea, and many things did my father read concerning Jerusalem —
that it should be destroyed, and the inhabitants thereof;
many should perish by the sword,
and many should be carried away captive into Babylon.
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 1:16
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.
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 1:18
Therefore, I would that ye should know, that
after the Lord had shown so many marvelous things unto my father, Lehi,
yea, concerning the destruction of Jerusalem,
behold he went forth among the people, and began to prophesy
and to declare unto them concerning the things
which he had both seen and heard.
1 Nephi 2:1
For behold, it came to pass that the Lord spake unto my father,
yea, even in a dream, and said unto him:
Blessed art thou Lehi, because of the things which thou hast done;
and because thou hast been faithful
and declared unto this people the things which I commanded thee,
behold, they seek to take away thy life.
1 Nephi 2:2
And it came to pass that the Lord commanded my father, even in a dream,
that he should take his family and depart into the wilderness.
1 Nephi 2:9
And when my father saw that the waters of the river
emptied into the fountain of the Red Sea,
he spake unto Laman, saying:
O that thou mightest be like unto this river,
continually running into the fountain of all righteousness!
1 Nephi 2:13
Neither did they believe that Jerusalem, that great city,
could be destroyed according to the words of the prophets.
And they were like unto the Jews who were at Jerusalem,
who sought to take away the life of my father.
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 2:15
And my father dwelt in a tent.
1 Nephi 2:16
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.
1 Nephi 3:1
And it came to pass that I, Nephi, returned
from speaking with the Lord, to the tent of my father.
1 Nephi 3:7
And it came to pass that I, Nephi, said unto my father:
I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded,
for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men,
save he shall prepare a way for them
that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them.
1 Nephi 3:8
And it came to pass that when my father had heard these words
he was exceedingly glad,
for he knew that I had been blessed of the Lord.
1 Nephi 3:12
And he desired of Laban the records
which were engraven upon the plates of brass,
which contained the genealogy of my father.
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 3:18
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 3:28
And it came to pass that Laman was angry with me, and also with my father;
and also was Lemuel, for he hearkened unto the words of Laman.
Wherefore Laman and Lemuel did speak many hard words
unto us, their younger brothers,
and they did smite us even with a rod.
1 Nephi 4:34
And I also spake unto him, saying:
Surely the Lord hath commanded us to do this thing;
and shall we not be diligent in keeping the commandments of the Lord?
Therefore, if thou wilt go down into the wilderness to my father
thou shalt have place 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 5:3
And after this manner of language had my mother complained against my father.
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 5:6
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 5:7
And when we had returned to the tent of my father,
behold their joy was full, and my mother was comforted.
1 Nephi 5:10
And after they had given thanks unto the God of Israel,
my father, Lehi, took the records which were engraven upon the plates of brass,
and he did search them from the beginning.
1 Nephi 5:14
And it came to pass that my father, Lehi, also found
upon the plates of brass a genealogy of his fathers;
wherefore he knew that he was a descendant of Joseph;
yea, even that Joseph who was the son of Jacob,
who was sold into Egypt, and who was preserved by the hand of the Lord,
that he might preserve his father, Jacob, and all his household
from perishing with famine.
1 Nephi 5:16
And thus my father, Lehi, did discover the genealogy of his fathers.
And Laban also was a descendant of Joseph,
wherefore he and his fathers had kept the records.
1 Nephi 5:17
And now when my father saw all these things,
he was filled with the Spirit, and began to prophesy concerning his seed —
1 Nephi 5:20
And it came to pass that thus far I and my father had kept the commandments
wherewith the Lord had commanded us.
