The Book of Mormon : $b an account written by the hand of Mormon, upon plates taken from the plates of NephiSmith, Joseph, Jr.
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The Book of Mormon : $b an account written by the hand of Mormon, upon plates taken from the plates of Nephi
Smith, Joseph, Jr.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Sacred books; Latter Day Saint churches -- Sacred books
3:10 Wherefore, ye shall remember your children, how that ye have
grieved their hearts because of the example that ye have set before
them; and also, remember that ye may, because of your filthiness, bring
your children unto destruction, and their sins be heaped upon your
heads at the last day.
3:11 O my brethren, hearken unto my words; arouse the faculties of your
souls; shake yourselves that ye may awake from the slumber of death;
and loose yourselves from the pains of hell that ye may not become
angels to the devil, to be cast into that lake of fire and brimstone
which is the second death.
3:12 And now I, Jacob, spake many more things unto the people of Nephi,
warning them against fornication and lasciviousness, and every kind of
sin, telling them the awful consequences of them.
3:13 And a hundredth part of the proceedings of this people, which now
began to be numerous, cannot be written upon these plates; but many of
their proceedings are written upon the larger plates, and their wars,
and their contentions, and the reigns of their kings.
3:14 These plates are called the plates of Jacob, and they were made by
the hand of Nephi. And I make an end of speaking these words.
Jacob Chapter 4
4:1 Now behold, it came to pass that I, Jacob, having ministered much
unto my people in word, (and I cannot write but a little of my words,
because of the difficulty of engraving our words upon plates) and we
know that the things which we write upon plates must remain;
4:2 But whatsoever things we write upon anything save it be upon plates
must perish and vanish away; but we can write a few words upon plates,
which will give our children, and also our beloved brethren, a small
degree of knowledge concerning us, or concerning their fathers—
4:3 Now in this thing we do rejoice; and we labor diligently to
engraven these words upon plates, hoping that our beloved brethren and
our children will receive them with thankful hearts, and look upon them
that they may learn with joy and not with sorrow, neither with
contempt, concerning their first parents.
4:4 For, for this intent have we written these things, that they may
know that we knew of Christ, and we had a hope of his glory many
hundred years before his coming; and not only we ourselves had a hope
of his glory, but also all the holy prophets which were before us.
4:5 Behold, they believed in Christ and worshiped the Father in his
name, and also we worship the Father in his name. And for this intent
we keep the law of Moses, it pointing our souls to him; and for this
cause it is sanctified unto us for righteousness, even as it was
accounted unto Abraham in the wilderness to be obedient unto the
commands of God in offering up his son Isaac, which is a similitude of
God and his Only Begotten Son.
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