Unit 37

of the land

6 occurrences in 5 verses

Mosiah 9:1, 7, 14,

Mosiah 10:8, 12

Mosiah 9:1

I, Zeniff, having been taught in all the language of the Nephites,

and having had a knowledge of the land of Nephi,

or of the land of our fathers' first inheritance,

and having been sent as a spy among the Lamanites

that I might spy out their forces,

that our army might come upon them and destroy them —

but when I saw that which was good among them

I was desirous that they should not be destroyed.

Mosiah 9:7

And he also commanded that his people should depart out of the land,

and I and my people went into the land that we might possess it.

Mosiah 9:14

For, in the thirteenth year of my reign

in the land of Nephi, away on the south of the land of Shilom,

when my people were watering and feeding their flocks, and tilling their lands,

a numerous host of Lamanites came upon them and began to slay them,

and to take off their flocks, and the corn of their fields.

Mosiah 10:8

And it came to pass that they came up

upon the north of the land of Shilom, with their numerous hosts,

men armed with bows, and with arrows,

and with swords, and with cimeters, and with stones, and with slings;

and they had their heads shaved that they were naked;

and they were girded with a leathern girdle about their loins.

Mosiah 10:12

They were a wild, and ferocious, and a blood-thirsty people,

believing in the tradition of their fathers, which is this —

Believing that they were driven out of the land of Jerusalem

because of the iniquities of their fathers,

and that they were wronged in the wilderness by their brethren,

and they were also wronged while crossing the sea;