Unit 81

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26 occurrences in 23 verses

3 Nephi 3:2, 3, 12, 13, 19, 24,

3 Nephi 4:4, 7, 9, 11, 28,

3 Nephi 5:1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 23

3 Nephi 3:2

Lachoneus, most noble and chief governor of the land,

behold, I write this epistle unto you,

and do give unto you exceedingly great praise

because of your firmness, and also the firmness of your people,

in maintaining that which ye suppose to be your right and liberty;

yea, ye do stand well, as if ye were supported by the hand of a god,

in the defence of your liberty, and your property, and your country,

or that which ye do call so.

3 Nephi 3:3

And it seemeth a pity unto me, most noble Lachoneus,

that ye should be so foolish and vain as to suppose

that ye can stand against so many brave men who are at my command,

who do now at this time stand in their arms,

and do await with great anxiety for the word —

Go down upon the Nephites and destroy them.

3 Nephi 3:12

Now behold, this Lachoneus, the governor, was a just man,

and could not be frightened by the demands and the threatenings of a robber;

therefore he did not hearken to the epistle of Giddianhi, the governor of the robbers,

but he did cause that his people should cry unto the Lord

for strength against the time that the robbers should come down against them.

3 Nephi 3:13

Yea, he sent a proclamation among all the people,

that they should gather together their women, and their children,

their flocks and their herds, and all their substance,

save it were their land, unto one place.

3 Nephi 3:19

Now it was the custom among all the Nephites

to appoint for their chief captains, (save it were in their times of wickedness)

some one that had the spirit of revelation and also prophecy;

therefore, this Gidgiddoni was a great prophet among them,

as also was the chief judge.

3 Nephi 3:24

And there were a great many thousand people who were called Nephites,

who did gather themselves together in this land.

Now Lachoneus did cause

that they should gather themselves together in the land southward,

because of the great curse which was upon the land northward.

3 Nephi 4:4

Therefore, there was no chance for the robbers to plunder and to obtain food,

save it were to come up in open battle against the Nephites;

and the Nephites being in one body,

and having so great a number,

and having reserved for themselves provisions,

and horses and cattle, and flocks of every kind,

that they might subsist for the space of seven years,

in the which time they did hope

to destroy the robbers from off the face of the land;

and thus the eighteenth year did pass away.

3 Nephi 4:7

And it came to pass that they did come up to battle;

and it was in the sixth month;

and behold, great and terrible was the day that they did come up to battle;

and they were girded about after the manner of robbers;

and they had a lamb-skin about their loins,

and they were dyed in blood,

and their heads were shorn,

and they had head-plates upon them;

and great and terrible was the appearance of the armies of Giddianhi,

because of their armor, and because of their being dyed in blood.

3 Nephi 4:9

And it came to pass that when the armies of Giddianhi saw this

they began to shout with a loud voice, because of their joy,

for they had supposed that the Nephites had fallen with fear

because of the terror of their armies.

3 Nephi 4:11

And the battle commenced in this the sixth month;

and great and terrible was the battle thereof,

yea, great and terrible was the slaughter thereof,

insomuch that there never was known so great a slaughter

among all the people of Lehi since he left Jerusalem.

3 Nephi 4:28

And their leader, Zemnarihah, was taken and hanged upon a tree,

yea, even upon the top thereof until he was dead.

And when they had hanged him until he was dead

they did fell the tree to the earth,

and did cry with a loud voice, saying:

3 Nephi 5:1

And now behold, there was not a living soul among all the people of the Nephites

who did doubt in the least

the words of all the holy prophets who had spoken;

for they knew that it must needs be that they must be fulfilled.

3 Nephi 5:4

And now it came to pass that when they had taken all the robbers prisoners,

insomuch that none did escape who were not slain,

they did cast their prisoners into prison,

and did cause the word of God to be preached unto them;

and as many as would repent of their sins

and enter into a covenant that they would murder no more

were set at liberty.

3 Nephi 5:5

But as many as there were who did not enter into a covenant,

and who did still continue to have those secret murders in their hearts,

yea, as many as were found breathing out threatenings against their brethren

were condemned and punished according to the law.

3 Nephi 5:8

And there had many things transpired

which, in the eyes of some, would be great and marvelous;

nevertheless, they cannot all be written in this book;

yea, this book cannot contain even a hundredth part of what was done

among so many people in the space of twenty and five years;

3 Nephi 5:9

But behold there are records which do contain all the proceedings of this people;

and a shorter but true account was given by Nephi.

3 Nephi 5:13

Behold, I am a disciple of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

I have been called of him to declare his word among his people,

that they might have everlasting life.

3 Nephi 5:14

And it hath become expedient

that I, according to the will of God,

that the prayers of those who have gone hence,

who were the holy ones,

should be fulfilled according to their faith,

should make a record of these things which have been done —

3 Nephi 5:15

Yea, a small record of that which hath taken place

from the time that Lehi left Jerusalem, even down until the present time.

3 Nephi 5:17

And then I do make a record of the things

which I have seen with mine own eyes.

3 Nephi 5:18

And I know the record which I make to be a just and a true record;

nevertheless there are many things

which, according to our language, we are not able to write.

3 Nephi 5:20

I am Mormon, and a pure descendant of Lehi.

I have reason to bless my God and my Savior Jesus Christ,

that he brought our fathers out of the land of Jerusalem,

(and no one knew it save it were himself

and those whom he brought out of that land)

and that he hath given me and my people

so much knowledge unto the salvation of our souls.

3 Nephi 5:23

Yea, and surely shall he again bring a remnant of the seed of Joseph

to the knowledge of the Lord their God.