Unit 55

now

6 occurrences in 6 verses

Alma 16:3, 4, 5, 11, 18, 21

Alma 16:3

And now it came to pass,

before the Nephites could raise a sufficient army to drive them out of the land,

they had destroyed the people who were in the city of Ammonihah,

and also some around the borders of Noah,

and taken others captive into the wilderness.

Alma 16:4

now it came to pass that the Nephites were desirous to obtain those

who had been carried away captive into the wilderness.

Alma 16:5

Therefore, he that had been appointed chief captain over the armies of the Nephites,

(and his name was Zoram, and he had two sons, Lehi and Aha) —

now Zoram and his two sons, knowing that Alma was high priest over the church,

and having heard that he had the spirit of prophecy,

therefore they went unto him and desired of him

to know whither the Lord would that they should go into the wilderness

in search of their brethren, who had been taken captive by the Lamanites.

Alma 16:11

Nevertheless, after many days

their dead bodies were heaped up upon the face of the earth,

and they were covered with a shallow covering.

And now so great was the scent thereof

that the people did not go in to possess the land of Ammonihah for many years.

And it was called Desolation of Nehors;

for they were of the profession of Nehor, who were slain;

and their lands remained desolate.

Alma 16:18

now those priests who did go forth among the people did preach

against all lyings, and deceivings, and envyings, and strifes, and malice, and revilings,

and stealing, robbing, plundering, murdering, committing adultery,

and all manner of lasciviousness,

crying that these things ought not so to be —

Alma 16:21

And now after the church had been established throughout all the land —

having got the victory over the devil,

and the word of God being preached in its purity in all the land,

and the Lord pouring out his blessings upon the people —

thus ended the fourteenth year

of the reign of the judges over the people of Nephi.