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Show ROOK OF 153 NEPHI. the people make a great uproar throughout the land; and any means by lest ful, sorrow very which believed, began to be not come to pass. hose things which had been spoken, might But behold, they that did watch steadfastly for that day, and as if there were night, and that day, which shall be as one day, not been no night, that they might know that their faith had vain. Now it came to pass that there was a day set apart by the THE THE SON OF BOOK NEPHI, ions, believers, that all those who believed in those tradit pass, to come should sign the should be put to death, except NEPEL, OF WAS WHICH THE SON OF ? HELAMAN. IL. CHAPTER people; yea, those which were about to be destroyed because which was the son of And Helaman was the son of Helaman, ! g a msec bein , Alma, which was the son of Alma l é v of out came h whic , Nephi, which was the son of Lehi reign of Zedekiah, the king | salem in the first year of the of Judah. and first year had oO Now it came to pass that the ninety s from the a a year and it was six hundred sed away; Lehi left Jerusalem; and it was in the year that Lachonell Ant the governor overt the land. was the Chief Judge and ‘ land the of n, had departed out ae . Nephi, the son of Helama ch unto his son Nephi, whi Zarahemla, giving charge plates of brass, and all Le the eldest son, concerning and all those things which had be ie which had been kept, ve of Lehi out of J erusaleza: sacred, from thé departure whither he went, no man ki departed out of the land, and p the records in his stead, yo eth; and his son Nephi did kee ely the record of this people. mencement of t heianin And it came to pass that in the com phecies of the ee vou and second year, behold, the pro there began 10 Be But ean to be fulfilled more fully; for the nee saa ught signs and greater miracles wro an to say, there were some which beg Now it came which had been given by Samuel the prophet. this wicked- / saw Nephi, of son the to.pass that when Nephi, And ful. ing sorrow xceed was_e heart , bis nessof his people upf down himsel bowed and out went he that pass to it came o the earth, and cried mightily to his God, in behalf of his among That the Ee was spoken by . ae say" for the words to be fulfilled, which ice oI over their bre And they began to rejo are n° Lamanite. the words of Samuaoel ing, Behold, the time is past, and your faith igre ying i ey aie and fulfilled; therefore, your joy it came to pase thing, hath been vain. And And it came to of their faith in the tradition of their fathers. pass that he cried mightily unto the Lord, all the day; and behold, the voice of the Lord came unto him, saying: Lift up your head and be of good cheer: for behold, the time is at hand, and on this night shall the sign be given, and on the mor-| world, to shew unto the world that I will theto row come I in full all that which I have caused to be spoken by the mouth of my Holy Prophets. Behold, I come unto my own, to fulfil paige which I have made known unto the children of men, hak i foundation of the world, of eae ea and to do the will, both of © and of the Mon of the Father, because of me, and | on, because And of my flesh. ehold, the time is at pe nd, and this night shall the sign be given. And it came to pass that the words which dame ufto Nephi, pias fulfilled, according as they had been spoken: for behold, € going down of the sun, there was no darkness; and the eee to be astonished, because there was no darkness ete came. And th@re were many which had not eae ae rons of the prophets, fell to the earth, and he- ffustrated; sien Pee they were dead, for they knew that the great plan Suction which they had laid for those who believed in © word of the prophets, had been for the Pip bad been given was already at hand; and they began W that the Son of God must shortly Ww . appear; yea, im fine, ue, all the people upon the face of the whole earth, from the Ww — fo the east, both in the land nor th and in the land south, ~~ *®exceedingly astonished, that they fell to the earth ; for |