Unit 40

the daughters of

6 occurrences in 6 verses



Mosiah 20:1, 4, 5, 15, 18,

Mosiah 21:20



Mosiah 20:1

Now there was a place in Shemlon

where the daughters of the Lamanites did gather themselves together

to sing, and to dance, and to make themselves merry.



Mosiah 20:4

And having tarried in the wilderness,

and having discovered the daughters of the Lamanites,

they laid and watched them;



Mosiah 20:5

And when there were but few of them gathered together to dance,

they came forth out of their secret places

and took them and carried them into the wilderness;

yea, twenty and four of the daughters of the Lamanites

they carried into the wilderness.



Mosiah 20:15

And now the king said:

I have broken the oath

because thy people did carry away the daughters of my people;

therefore, in my anger I did cause my people

to come up to war against thy people.



Mosiah 20:18

For do ye not remember the priests of thy father,

whom this people sought to destroy?

And are they not in the wilderness?

And are not they the ones who have stolen the daughters of the Lamanites?



Mosiah 21:20

And he caused that his people should watch the land round about,

that by some means they might take those priests that fled into the wilderness,

who had stolen the daughters of the Lamanites,

and that had caused such a great destruction to come upon them.