Unit 37

should

15 occurrences in 10 verses

Mosiah 9:1, 2, 7, 11, 13,

Mosiah 10:1, 4, 5, 9, 17

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 9:2

Therefore, I contended with my brethren in the wilderness,

for I would that our ruler should make a treaty with them;

but he being an austere and a blood-thirsty man commanded that I should be slain;

but I was rescued by the shedding of much blood;

for father fought against father, and brother against brother,

until the greater number of our army was destroyed in the wilderness;

and we returned, those of us that were spared, to the land of Zarahemla,

to relate that tale to their wives and their children.

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 9:11

Therefore it came to pass, that

after we had dwelt in the land for the space of twelve years

that king Laman began to grow uneasy,

lest by any means my people should wax strong in the land,

and that they could not overpower them and bring them into bondage.

Mosiah 9:13

Therefore it came to pass that king Laman began to stir up his people

that they should contend with my people;

therefore there began to be wars and contentions in the land.

Mosiah 10:1

And it came to pass that we again began to establish the kingdom

and we again began to possess the land in peace.

And I caused that there should be weapons of war made of every kind,

that thereby I might have weapons for my people

against the time the Lamanites should come up again to war against my people.

Mosiah 10:4

And I did cause that the men should till the ground,

and raise all manner of grain and all manner of fruit of every kind.

Mosiah 10:5

And I did cause that the women should spin, and toil,

and work, and work all manner of fine linen,

yea, and cloth of every kind,

that we might clothe our nakedness;

and thus we did prosper in the land —

thus we did have continual peace in the land

for the space of twenty and two years.

Mosiah 10:9

And it came to pass that I caused

that the women and children of my people should be hid in the wilderness;

and I also caused that all my old men that could bear arms,

and also all my young men that were able to bear arms,

should gather themselves together to go to battle against the Lamanites;

and I did place them in their ranks, every man according to his age.

Mosiah 10:17

And thus they have taught their children that they should hate them,

and that they should murder them,

and that they should rob and plunder them,

and do all they could to destroy them;

therefore they have an eternal hatred towards the children of Nephi.