The Book of Mormon - exploring a word pattern

. . . Pattern One creation:

[552]an abridgment of the record
[553]An abridgment taken from the Book of Ether
[001]great knowledge of the goodness and the mysteries of God,
[004]Behold I have dreamed a dream,
[005]hearken unto my words, as the Lord
[006]she also had complained against my father, . . . a visionary man
[007]Lehi, took the records . . . he did search them from the beginning. . . . an account of the creation of the world
[008]give the genealogy of my fathers
[009]we had gathered together all manner of seeds of every kind, both of grain of every kind, and also of the seeds of fruit of every kind
[012]he is the same yesterday, to-day, and forever; and the way is prepared from the foundation of the world
[013a]he is God over all the earth . . . thou believest in the Son of the most high God
[016b]I, Nephi, did make out of wood a bow, and out of a straight stick, an arrow
[017a]they did murmur; and against my father, saying he had brought them out of the land of Jerusalem . . . we have suffered much affliction, hunger, thirst, and fatigue
[017b]the Lord spake unto me, Thou shalt construct a ship, after the manner which I shall show thee
[019]Behold, the Lord hath created the earth that it should be inhabited; he hath created his children that they should possess it
[022]rocks of the earth must rend
[024]Mine hand hath also laid the foundation of the earth, my right hand hath spanned the heavens
[027]the time cometh that they shall dwindle in unbelief, having a knowledge of the creation of the earth, all men, knowing the great and marvelous works of the Lord from the creation of the world
z
[1]creation

. . .

E-mail questions about this work to rnelson@walden3d.com.

Copyright © 2000 H. Roice Nelson, Jr.