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Show NEPHI. BOOK mission of your sins, and be filled with the Holy Ghost, that ye may be numbered with my people, which are of the house of OF rosper them exceedingly, they did_ NEPHI. in the cilés-agaimwhere land; again. But there were many IS THE SON OF NEPHI, ONE OF THE DISCIPLES OF JESUS CHRIST. and cities ; : that the people of Nephi exceeding, delightsome fast. people. given in marriage, ae a of the promises which the became thev were achnecisea blessed and were ‘cae and And ae Lord had made unto they had received from their lie their God, continuing in fasting it Lord @e_ came to pass that all the in people, 7 and prayer, there was no but there were land, and in ’ = ‘ »)y went among the disciples of Jesus i Sus. 1 vie Oe . passsd that the seventy and first c contention mighty gat) year passed and second year; yea, and in fine a till the Be away; yea, even it hundred aes hi bye year had passed of Jesus “9 disciples the and away, Seer ac whom he ned ui ; e ‘ s . a c " Tp n¢ P ‘ f 2) c it were the thr en, had all gone to the paradise of God, save 5 con iasin ; coterie should tarry: Andt + as | ; a ae raained in thei , genethat of many also and stead; =a had which5 tation as ad passed away. And it came to pass that Qed ois. 0 contention in the land, because of the love e of of : Which did dwell in th Wee iG ence in the hearts of the people. And there nor ~ strifes, nor tumults, a.nor whoredoms Sy lor lyings ae ‘wely there. Or¢ mururders, nor no manner of lasciviousness: and sere could pot Bea happier people among ne all-t all-the peo- »an@ Were th rh of Ties; but they were in one the ae udren of : heirs to the kj kingdom of God: And h ow blessed e . oY do; their hey, for the Lord rd diddi bless them in all all their We tein; doings : bl were they | 5 essed an d prospéred, | S88 5 | hundred uniiiban hd ten €ars ears had passed away: And the first ginerahon mt Christaish d i the “ee eon away, ers and there was no conténtion in oa . 1ere Were 47 TY ah Oke Christ neither were the _ Sbbers, noy‘no murderers, Se people b which had W0Me rob ad been created by the hand of God: ee ‘ ( me’ ~~ SCP lt to pass _ upon p t . Nephi, he that k ept this last record, : = of Nephi,) died, and his son a j also ea, even until forty and nine years had passed away; syen unl yea, anat and the fair did multiply these ; ae } the dead, and cause the lame to walk, and the blind acles a mir theirsight, and the deaf to hear; and all mannero { ng did they hi not in and men; of children they work among the And thus work miraclegigave it were in the name, of Jesus. tl 1€ {hirty did the thirty’ and eighth year pass away, and alsoand second, fifty and nine years had passed away; and had been sunk, and therefore - ede J And there were greatand marvellous works wrought ,byand raise ciples of Jesus, insomuch that they did heal the sick to receive ant heey thibanly contentions Jana ninth, and the forty and first, and the forty dni iti io and disputations. among them, and every man did deal justly one with another;. and they had all things common amor and Iree, them, therefore there were not rich and poor, bond venly Hea the of rs ake p art and but they were all:made free, gift. year past And it came to pass that the thirty and sev enth the land. in ed away also, and there still continued to be peace the dis the fifty and first, and the fifty and second; ‘Ts at} an and there was no s¢ ca and Lamanites, ~~ ee both Nepbites ae > . . er ly And as many as did come unto them, and did tru about. repent of their sins, were baptized in the name ol Jesus; ane they did also receive the Holy Ghost. And it came to-pass in the thirty and sixth year, the people were all converted unto the Lord, upon all the face of the lane, . strong, o” to pass . id wax me hay that the thi rty and fourth year passed les 0! away, and also the thirty and fitth, and behold the discip round lands the -all in ist Jesus had formed a church of Chr : ; any more atter the performaner did not walk ces ‘ d . but they did walk ordinances of the law of Moses, atte lord F ements which Record. An account of the people of Nephi, according to his it came , could not be renewed. And now behold it came to pass NEPHI, CHAPTER I. Anp ‘te that ae WHICH OF Ss insomuch they cause to be built cities which aters came up in the stead thereof; wat BOOK yea, there had been cities burned; yea, even that great city Zarahemla did Israel. THE 5S een, OF ete: ROOK 514 |