Unit 24

brethren

13 occurrences in 12 verses -

Jacob 2:2, 12, 13, 14, 17, 20, 27, 34, 35,

Jacob 3:5, 8, 11

Jacob 2:2

Now, my beloved brethren, I, Jacob,

according to the responsibility which I am under to God,

to magnify mine office with soberness,

and that I might rid my garments of your sins,

I come up into the temple this day

that I might declare unto you the word of God.

Jacob 2:12

And now behold, my brethren, this is the word which I declare unto you,

that many of you have begun to search for gold, and for silver,

and for all manner of precious ores,

in the which this land,

which is a land of promise unto you and to your seed,

doth abound most plentifully.

Jacob 2:13

And the hand of providence hath smiled upon you most pleasingly,

that you have obtained many riches;

and because some of you have obtained more abundantly

than that of your brethren

ye are lifted up in the pride of your hearts, and wear stiff necks and high heads

because of the costliness of your apparel,

and persecute your brethren

because ye suppose that ye are better than they.

Jacob 2:14

And now, my brethren, do ye suppose

that God justifieth you in this thing?

Behold, I say unto you, Nay.

But he condemneth you,

and if ye persist in these things

his judgments must speedily come unto you.

Jacob 2:17

Think of your brethren like unto yourselves,

and be familiar with all and free with your substance,

that they may be rich like unto you.

Jacob 2:20

And now, my brethren, I have spoken unto you concerning pride;

and those of you which have afflicted your neighbor, and persecuted him

because ye were proud in your hearts, of the things which God hath given you,

what say ye of it?

Jacob 2:27

Wherefore, my brethren, hear me, and hearken to the word of the Lord:

For there shall not any man among you have save it be one wife;

and concubines he shall have none;

Jacob 2:34

And now behold, my brethren,

ye know that these commandments were given to our father, Lehi;

wherefore, ye have known them before;

and ye have come unto great condemnation;

for ye have done these things which ye ought not to have done.

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 3:8

O my brethren, I fear that unless ye shall repent of your sins

that their skins will be whiter than yours,

when ye shall be brought with them before the throne of God.

Jacob 3:11

O my brethren, hearken unto my words;

arouse the faculties of your souls;

shake yourselves that ye may awake from the slumber of death;

and loose yourselves from the pains of hell

that ye may not become angels to the devil,

to be cast into that lake of fire and brimstone which is the second death.