Unit 2

and now

6 occurrences in 6 verses

1 Nephi 6:1,

1 Nephi 7:1, 8, 15,

1 Nephi 8:29,

1 Nephi 9:2

1 Nephi 6:1

and now I, Nephi, do not give the genealogy of my fathers in this part of my record;

neither at any time shall I give it after upon these plates which I am writing;

for it is given in the record which has been kept by my father;

wherefore, I do not write it in this work.

1 Nephi 7:1

and now I would that ye might know, that

after my father, Lehi, had made an end of prophesying concerning his seed,

it came to pass that the Lord spake unto him again, saying

that it was not meet for him, Lehi,

that he should take his family into the wilderness alone;

but that his sons should take daughters to wife,

that they might raise up seed unto the Lord in the land of promise.

1 Nephi 7:8

and now I, Nephi, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts,

therefore I spake unto them, saying,

yea, even unto Laman and unto Lemuel:

Behold ye are mine elder brethren,

and how is it that ye are so hard in your hearts, and so blind in your minds,

that ye have need that I, your younger brother, should speak unto you,

yea, and set an example for you?

1 Nephi 7:15

Now behold, I say unto you

that if ye will return unto Jerusalem ye shall also perish with them.

and now, if ye have choice, go up to the land,

and remember the words which I speak unto you,

that if ye go ye will also perish;

for thus the Spirit of the Lord constraineth me that I should speak.

1 Nephi 8:29

and now I, Nephi, do not speak all the words of my father.

1 Nephi 9:2

and now, as I have spoken concerning these plates,

behold they are not the plates

upon which I make a full account of the history of my people;

for the plates upon which I make a full account of my people

I have given the name of Nephi;

wherefore, they are called the plates of Nephi, after mine own name;

and these plates also are called the plates of Nephi.