Unit 1

my father Lehi

7 occurrences in 7 verses

1 Nephi 1:4, 5, 18,

1 Nephi 5:6, 10, 14, 16

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 1:18

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 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 5:10

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.