Unit 24

of their

10 occurrences in 7 verses -

Jacob 2:31, 33, 35,

Jacob 3:5, 7, 9, 13

Jacob 2:31

For behold, I, the Lord, have seen the sorrow, and heard the mourning

of the daughters of my people in the land of Jerusalem,

yea, and in all the lands of my people,

because of the wickedness and abominations of their husbands.

Jacob 2:33

For they shall not lead away captive the daughters of my people

because of their tenderness,

save I shall visit them with a sore curse, even unto destruction;

for they shall not commit whoredoms,

like unto them of old, saith the Lord of Hosts.

Jacob 2:35

Behold, ye have done greater iniquities than the Lamanites, our brethren.

Ye have broken the hearts of your tender wives,

and lost the confidence of your children,

because of your bad examples before them;

and the sobbings of their hearts ascend up to God against you.

And because of the strictness of the word of God,

which cometh down against you,

many hearts died, pierced with deep wounds.

Jacob 3:5

Behold, the Lamanites your brethren, whom ye hate

because of their filthiness and the cursing which hath come upon their skins,

are more righteous than you;

for they have not forgotten the commandment of the Lord,

which was given unto our father —

that they should have save it were one wife,

and concubines they should have none,

and there should not be whoredoms committed among them.

Jacob 3:7

Behold, their husbands love their wives,

and their wives love their husbands;

and their husbands and their wives love their children;

and their unbelief and their hatred towards you

is because of the iniquity of their fathers;

wherefore, how much better are you than they,

in the sight of your great Creator?

Jacob 3:9

Wherefore, a commandment I give unto you, which is the word of God,

that ye revile no more against them because of the darkness of their skins;

neither shall ye revile against them because of their filthiness;

but ye shall remember your own filthiness,

and remember that their filthiness came because of their fathers.

Jacob 3:13

And a hundredth part of the proceedings of this people,

which now began to be numerous,

cannot be written upon these plates;

but many of their proceedings are written upon the larger plates,

and their wars, and their contentions, and the reigns of their kings.