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And he shal] smite the earth with the rod of his mouth ; and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked: for the time speedily cometh, that the Lord God shall cause a great division among the people ; and the wicked will he destroy; and he will spare my people, which are of the House of Israel, that I am God, and that Icovenanted with Abraham that I would remember his seed forever. v K. Gee 4A. <a his people, yea, even if it'so be that he must destroy the wicked by fire. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins, And then shall the wolf dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down With the kid; and the calf, and the young lion, and the fatling, And now, behold, my beloved brethren, I would speak unto you: for I, Nephi, would not suffer that ye, should suppose that ye are more righteous than the Gentiles shall be. For behold, except ye shall keep the commandments of God, ye together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and because of the words which have 4nd 2. “Been spoken, ye necd not suppose that the Gentiles are utterly the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sacking _ ehttc-shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child For behold, I say unto you, as many of the Gem ¢ s - - eee. ne : * Pe z a a 2ar Deez *Bs = a a ee a = iee ES : en a ; a tak he oi ee tee ? sans ous > ae, .= ts eas MEE eS eer INS Spat oo Pe? ~< And it shall come to pass that the Jews which are scattered, a : oe. the hand of God; and their scales of darkness shall begin to fall from their eyes} and many generations shall not pass away among them, save they shall be a white and a delightsome people. ee Aa ee a> ne Sanne be restored unto the knowledge ° joice: for they shall‘know that it is a blessing unto them from And it shall come to pass that my people which are of the House of Israel, shall be gathered home unto the lands of their possessions; and my word also shall be gathered in one. And es, destroyed. they shall a eR cae ¢ * unto them: for out of the books I will shew unto them that fight against my word and against 1 a descendant of thec> aes aoe shall have the words of the Nephites and the Jews. shall all likewise perish; that_they are of their fathers, and also to the knowledge of Jesus Christ, whieh Was had among their fathers. And then shall they re- - of the Jews; and the Nephites and the Jews shall have the words of the lost tribes of Israel; and the lost tribes of Israel . $5 and And the Gospel of Jesus Christ shall be declared among them; wherciore, it; and I shall also speak unto the Nephites, and they shall | write it; and I shall also speak unto the other tribes of the “| House of Israel, which I have led away, and they shall write = Jerusalem, ge C OR So Jews. * ~*~ . out from Which shall be written, 1 will judge the world, every man achie a So . . Sil ~~ eording-to‘ their works, according to that which is written.— /. » For behold, Fshall speak unto the Jews, and they shall write _ And now, I would prophesy somewhat more concerning the For after the book of which I have and the Gentiles. spoken shall come forth, and be written unto the Gentiles, and sealed up again unto the Lord, there shall be many which shall believe the words which are written; and they shall carry them forth unto the remnant of our seed. And then shall the remnant of our seed know concerning us, how that we came ° Jews _ Wherefore, because that ye have a Bible, ye need not sup- é Seti he pose that it contains all my words; neither need ye suppose that I have not caused more to be written: for I command all men, both in the east, and in the west, and in the north, and in the south, and in the islands of the sea, that they shall write _ words of the Nephites, and the Nephites shall havéthe words ‘ E the Lord covenanteth with none, save it be with them that re- neither shall it be, until the end of man; ». it; and I shall also speak unto all the nations of the earth, and \ they shall write it. | And it shall come to pass that the Jews shall have the NEPHI. pent and believe in his Son, which is the Holy One of Israel. neither from that time henceforth and forever. ¥he words which I speak OF tiles as will repent, are the covenant people of the Lord; and as many of the Jews as will not repent, shall be cast off: for that I remember one nation like unto another? wherefore, | speak the same words unto one nation like unto another. And when the two nations shall run together, the testimony of the iwo nations shall run together also. And I do this that I may prove unto many, that | am the same yesterday, to-day, and forever; and that I speak forth my words according to mine own pleasure. And because that | have spoken one word, ye need not suppose that I cannot speak another: for my work is not yet fmished; BOOK — SECOND Sen NEPHI, 7 OF igs BOOK tadua>am SECOND |
