1 Nephi 17:20
And thou art like unto our father,
led away by the foolish imaginations of his heart;
yea, he hath led us out of the land of Jerusalem,
and we have wandered in the wilderness for these many years;
and our women have toiled, being big with child;
and they have borne children in the wilderness
and suffered all things, save it were death;
and it would have been better that they had died
before they came out of Jerusalem than to have suffered these afflictions.
and suffered all things, save it were death;
it - 110 occurrences in 82 verses - 1 Nephi 16:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 39, 17:1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 19, 20, 23, 25, 31, 35, 36, 39, 41, 45, 46, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 18:1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 19:1, 6, 9, 19, 21
it were - 4 occurrences in 4 verses - 1 Nephi 17:20, 31, 45, 18:20
