Unit 11

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37 occurrences in 24 verses

2 Nephi 5:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 25, 26, 27, 30, 31, 33, 34

2 Nephi 5:1

Behold, it came to pass that I, Nephi, did cry much unto the Lord my God,

because of the anger of my brethren.

2 Nephi 5:2

But behold, their anger did increase against me,

insomuch that they did seek to take away my life.

2 Nephi 5:3

Yea, they did murmur against me, saying:

Our younger brother thinks to rule over us;

and we have had much trial because of him;

wherefore, now let us slay him,

that we may not be afflicted more because of his words.

For behold, we will not have him to be our ruler;

for it belongs unto us, who are the elder brethren, to rule over this people.

2 Nephi 5:4

Now I do not write upon these plates all the words

which they murmured against me.

But it sufficeth me to say, that they did seek to take away my life.

2 Nephi 5:5

And it came to pass that the Lord did warn me,

that I, Nephi, should depart from them and flee into the wilderness,

and all those who would go with me.

2 Nephi 5:6

Wherefore, it came to pass that I, Nephi, did take my family,

and also Zoram and his family,

and Sam, mine elder brother and his family,

and Jacob and Joseph, my younger brethren,

and also my sisters,

and all those who would go with me.

And all those who would go with me were those

who believed in the warnings and the revelations of God;

wherefore, they did hearken unto my words.

2 Nephi 5:9

And all those who were with me did take upon them

to call themselves the people of Nephi.

2 Nephi 5:10

And we did observe to keep the judgments, and the statutes,

and the commandments of the Lord

in all things, according to the law of Moses.

2 Nephi 5:11

And the Lord was with us; and we did prosper exceedingly;

for we did sow seed, and we did reap again in abundance.

And we began to raise flocks, and herds, and animals of every kind.

2 Nephi 5:12

And I, Nephi, had also brought the records

which were engraven upon the plates of brass;

and also the ball, or compass,

which was prepared for my father by the hand of the Lord,

according to that which is written.

2 Nephi 5:13

And it came to pass that we began to prosper exceedingly,

and to multiply in the land.

2 Nephi 5:15

And I did teach my people to build buildings,

and to work in all manner of wood,

and of iron, and of copper, and of brass, and of steel,

and of gold, and of silver, and of precious ores,

which were in great abundance.

2 Nephi 5:16

And I, Nephi, did build a temple;

and I did construct it after the manner of the temple of Solomon

save it were not built of so many precious things;

for they were not to be found upon the land,

wherefore, it could not be built like unto Solomon's temple.

But the manner of the construction was like unto the temple of Solomon;

and the workmanship thereof was exceedingly fine.

2 Nephi 5:17

And it came to pass that I, Nephi, did cause my people

to be industrious,

and to labor with their hands.

2 Nephi 5:18

And it came to pass that they would that I should be their king.

But I, Nephi, was desirous that they should have no king;

nevertheless, I did for them according to that which was in my power.

2 Nephi 5:19

And behold, the words of the Lord had been fulfilled unto my brethren,

which he spake concerning them, that I should be their ruler and their teacher.

Wherefore, I had been their ruler and their teacher,

according to the commandments of the Lord,

until the time they sought to take away my life.

2 Nephi 5:21

And he had caused the cursing to come upon them,

yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity.

For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him,

that they had become like unto a flint;

wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome,

that they might not be enticing unto my people

the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them.

2 Nephi 5:25

And the Lord God said unto me:

They shall be a scourge unto thy seed, to stir them up in remembrance of me;

and inasmuch as they will not remember me, and hearken unto my words,

they shall scourge them even unto destruction.

2 Nephi 5:26

And it came to pass that I, Nephi, did consecrate Jacob and Joseph,

that they should be priests and teachers over the land of my people.

2 Nephi 5:27

And it came to pass that we lived after the manner of happiness.

2 Nephi 5:30

And it came to pass that the Lord God said unto me:

Make other plates;

and thou shalt engraven many things upon them

which are good in my sight, for the profit of thy people.

2 Nephi 5:31

Wherefore, I, Nephi, to be obedient to the commandments of the Lord,

went and made these plates upon which I have engraven these things.

2 Nephi 5:33

And if my people desire to know the more particular part

of the history of my people

they must search mine other plates.

2 Nephi 5:34

And it sufficeth me to say that forty years had passed away,

and we had already had wars and contentions with our brethren.