Tents

Portable shelters for camps and gatherings

Tents are dwellings that people took, pitched, and occupied in the wilderness. Nephi and those with him “did take our tents” while journeying, and after many days “did pitch our tents” (2 Nephi 5:7).

King Benjamin’s people pitched tents “round about the temple,” every family separate from another. Each man had his tent door facing the temple so that the families could hear King Benjamin’s words (Mosiah 2:5–6).

Alma and the people of the Lord were apprised of the king’s army coming, so they took “their tents and their families” and departed into the wilderness (Mosiah 18:34). Those who marched to Cumorah “did pitch our tents around about the hill Cumorah” (Mormon 6:4).

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2 Nephi 5:7 — Nephi’s group takes tents and journeys into wilderness

Enos 1:20 — Lamanites dwell in tents, wild and ferocious

Mosias 2:5 — Families pitch tents round about the temple

Mosias 2:6 — Tent doors face the temple to hear Benjamin

Mosias 7:5 — Ammon’s company pitches tents on hill north of Shilom

Mosias 9:4 — Zeniff’s company pitches tents near land of fathers

Mosias 18:34 — Alma’s people take tents and flee Noah’s army

Mosias 22:2 — Limhi’s people take tents to escape bondage

Mosias 23:5 — People of Zeniff pitch tents and begin to till ground

Mosias 24:20 — Alma’s people pitch tents in valley of Alma

Alma 2:20 — Nephites pitch tents in valley of Gideon for the night

Alma 2:26 — Nephites take tents and depart toward Zarahemla

Alma 22:28 — Idle Lamanites dwell in tents through wilderness

Alma 27:25 — Ammon returns to Anti-Nephi-Lehi tents in wilderness

Alma 46:31 — Moroni marches with tents to cut off Amalickiah

Alma 47:9 — Amalickiah pitches tents near mount Antipas

Alma 51:32 — Teancum and Amalickiah pitch tents at Bountiful borders

Alma 58:13 — Helaman’s army pitches tents near city of Manti

Alma 58:17 — Helaman remains where they had first pitched tents

Alma 58:25 — Lamanites pitch tents, supposing Nephites weary

Alma 62:18 — Nephites pitch tents in plains of Nephihah

Helaman 3:9 — Land-northward people dwell in tents and houses of cement

Mormon 6:4 — Mormon pitches tents around hill Cumorah

Eter 2:13 — Jaredites pitch tents at Moriancumer by the sea

Eter 14:28 — Coriantumr and Shiz pitch tents in valley of Shurr/Corihor

Eter 15:8 — Armies pitch tents at waters of Ripliancum

Eter 15:10 — Shiz flees and pitches tents at Ogath

Eter 15:11 — Coriantumr pitches tents by the hill Ramah

Portable shelters for camps and gatherings

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