The Book of Mormon - exploring a word pattern

. . . Pattern Eight authority:

[002]he saw and heard much
[004]it is wisdom in God that we should obtain these records, ... spoken by the mouth of all the holy prophets, ... since the world began,
[005]we took the plates of brass
[007]a genealogy of his fathers; a descendant of Joseph; . . . preserved by the hand of the Lord, . . . Lehi, did discover the genealogy of his fathers. . . . go forth unto all nations, kind reds, tongues, and people
[009]I beheld a large and spacious field
[011]which power he received by faith on the Son of God
[013a]the everlasting God was judged of the world
[014]after the Messiah shall be manifested in body unto the children of men, the fulness of the gospel of the Messiah come unto the Gentiles, from the Gentiles unto the remnant of our seed
[017a]he says that the Lord has talked with him . . . angels have ministered unto him . . . he has thought to make himself a king and a ruler over us
[017b]I did make tools of the ore
[018]Moses smote the rock, and there came forth water
[019]He ruleth high in the heavens, for it is his throne
[020]I am thy brother, yea, even thy younger brother; worship the Lord thy God, and honor thy father and thy mother
[021]the Lord commanded me, I did make plates of ore that I might engraven upon them the record of my people, and the prophecies of my father
[024]I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the ends of the earth
[025]after our seed is scattered the Lord God will proceed to do a marvelous work among the Gentiles . . . unto the making known of the covenants of the Father of Heaven unto Abraham, saying, In thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed
[026]their rebellions upon the waters, the mercies of God in sparing their lives
[027]a few more days and I go the way of all the earth . . . the Lord hath redeemed my soul from hell; I have beheld his glory, I am encircled about eternally in the arms of his love
[028]thou hast been brought out of the land of Jerusalem
[029]in thy childhood thou hast suffered afflictions and much sorrow
[030]the law is given unto men . . . by the law no flesh is justified
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[8]authority

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