Unit 101

began to be

2 occurrences in 2 verses

Ether 6:16, 19

Ether 6:16

And the friends of Jared and his brother

were in number about twenty and two souls;

and they also begat sons and daughters before they came to the promised land;

and therefore they began to be many.

Ether 6:19

And the brother of Jared began to be old,

and saw that he must soon go down to the grave;

wherefore he said unto Jared:

Let us gather together our people that we may number them,

that we may know of them what they will desire of us

before we go down to our graves.