Unit 1
said
9 occurrences in 9 verses
1 Nephi 2:1, 11,
1 Nephi 3:7, 13, 15,
1 Nephi 4:10, 11, 12,
1 Nephi 5:19
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 2:11
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 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 3:13
And behold, it came to pass that Laban was angry,
and thrust him out from his presence;
and he would not that he should have the records.
Wherefore, he said unto him:
Behold thou art a robber, and I will slay thee.
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 4:11
And the Spirit said unto me again:
Behold the Lord hath delivered him into thy hands.
Yea, and I also knew that he had sought to take away mine own life;
yea, and he would not hearken unto the commandments of the Lord;
and he also had taken away our property.
1 Nephi 4:12
And it came to pass that the Spirit said unto me again:
Slay him, for the Lord hath delivered him into thy hands;
1 Nephi 5:19
Wherefore, he said that these plates of brass should never perish;
neither should they be dimmed any more by time.
And he prophesied many things concerning his seed.
