Unit 8

firstborn

3 occurrences in 3 verses

2 Nephi 2:1, 2, 11

2 Nephi 2:1

And now, Jacob, I speak unto you:

Thou art my firstborn in the days of my tribulation in the wilderness.

And behold, in thy childhood thou hast suffered afflictions and much sorrow,

because of the rudeness of thy brethren.

2 Nephi 2:2

Nevertheless, Jacob, my firstborn in the wilderness,

thou knowest the greatness of God;

and he shall consecrate thine afflictions for thy gain.

2 Nephi 2:11

For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things.

If not so, my firstborn in the wilderness,

righteousness could not be brought to pass,

neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad.

Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one;

wherefore, if it should be one body

it must needs remain as dead,

having no life neither death, nor corruption nor incorruption,

happiness nor misery, neither sense nor insensibility.