"While we were"

1. 1 Sam. 25: 16
     16 They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
2. Rom. 5: 8
     8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet ^asinners, ^bChrist died for us.
3. D&C 76: 15, 28, 80, 113, 115
     15 For while we were doing the work of ^atranslation, which the Lord had appointed unto us, we came to the twenty-ninth verse of the fifth chapter of John, which was given unto us as follows—
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     28 And while we were yet in the Spirit, the Lord commanded us that we should write the vision; for we beheld Satan, that old ^aserpent, even the ^bdevil, who rebelled against God, and sought to take the kingdom of our ^cGod and his Christ—
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     80 And now this is the end of the ^avision which we saw of the terrestrial, that the Lord commanded us to ^bwrite while we were yet in the Spirit.
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     113 This is the end of the vision which we saw, which we were commanded to write while we were yet in the Spirit.
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     115 Which he commanded us we should not write while we were yet in the Spirit, and are not ^alawful for man to utter;
4. JS-H 1: 68
     68 We still continued the work of translation, when, in the ensuing month (May, 1829), we on a certain day went into the woods to pray and inquire of the Lord respecting ^abaptism for the ^bremission of sins, that we found mentioned in the translation of the plates. While we were thus employed, praying and calling upon the Lord, a messenger from heaven descended in a ^ccloud of light, and having laid his ^dhands upon us, he ^eordained us, saying: