Unit 76

and their

29 occurrences in 12 verses

Helaman 3:9, 14, 36,

Helaman 4:11, 13,

Helaman 5:2,

Helaman 6:1, 21, 22, 24, 30, 31

Helaman 3:9

And the people who were in the land northward

did dwell in tents, and in houses of cement,

and they did suffer whatsoever tree should spring up upon the face of the land

that it should grow up,

that in time they might have timber to build their houses,

yea, their cities, and their temples, and their synagogues, and their sanctuaries,

and all manner of their buildings.

Helaman 3:14

But behold, a hundredth part of the proceedings of this people,

yea, the account of the Lamanites and of the Nephites,

and their wars, and contentions, and dissensions,

and their preaching, and their prophecies,

and their shipping and their building of ships,

and their building of temples, and of synagogues and their sanctuaries,

and their righteousness, and their wickedness,

and their murders, and their robbings, and their plundering,

and all manner of abominations and whoredoms,

cannot be contained in this work.

Helaman 3:36

And it came to pass that the fifty and second year ended in peace also,

save it were the exceedingly great pride

which had gotten into the hearts of the people;

and it was because of their exceedingly great riches and their prosperity in the land;

and it did grow upon them from day to day.

Helaman 4:11

Now this great loss of the Nephites,

and the great slaughter which was among them,

would not have happened

had it not been for their wickedness

and their abomination which was among them;

yea, and it was among those also who professed to belong to the church of God.

Helaman 4:13

And because of this their great wickedness,

and their boastings in their own strength,

they were left in their own strength;

therefore they did not prosper,

but were afflicted and smitten, and driven before the Lamanites,

until they had lost possession of almost all their lands.

Helaman 5:2

For as their laws and their governments were established by the voice of the people,

and they who chose evil were more numerous than they who chose good,

therefore they were ripening for destruction,

for the laws had become corrupted.

Helaman 6:1

And it came to pass that when the sixty and second year

of the reign of the judges had ended,

all these things had happened

and the Lamanites had become, the more part of them, a righteous people,

insomuch that their righteousness did exceed that of the Nephites,

because of their firmness and their steadiness in the faith.

Helaman 6:21

But behold, Satan did stir up the hearts of the more part of the Nephites,

insomuch that they did unite with those bands of robbers,

and did enter into their covenants and their oaths,

that they would protect and preserve one another

in whatsoever difficult circumstances they should be placed,

that they should not suffer for their murders,

and their plunderings, and their stealings.

Helaman 6:22

And it came to pass that they did have their signs,

yea, their secret signs, and their secret words;

and this that they might distinguish a brother

who had entered into the covenant,

that whatsoever wickedness his brother should do

he should not be injured by his brother,

nor by those who did belong to his band,

who had taken this covenant.

Helaman 6:24

And whosoever of those who belonged to their band

should reveal unto the world of their wickedness and their abominations,

should be tried, not according to the laws of their country,

but according to the laws of their wickedness,

which had been given by Gadianton and Kishkumen.

Helaman 6:30

And behold, it is he who is the author of all sin.

And behold, he doth carry on his works of darkness and secret murder,

and doth hand down their plots, and their oaths,

and their covenants, and their plans of awful wickedness,

from generation to generation

according as he can get hold upon the hearts of the children of men.

Helaman 6:31

And now behold, he had got great hold upon the hearts of the Nephites;

yea, insomuch that they had become exceedingly wicked;

yea, the more part of them had turned out of the way of righteousness,

and did trample under their feet the commandments of God,

and did turn unto their own ways,

and did build up unto themselves idols of their gold and their silver.