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Show v0 4 ~ he BOOK OF ETHER. pout people, to keep them in darkness, tohelp such as sought pow: er, fO gain and power, and to murder, and to to commit all manner of wickedness plunder, and that they have murdered the prophets, and stoned them, an cast them wherefore Akish administered for the Lord worketh above all, in the now rash I, Moroni, forbidden do it. from the beginning not write Ti the > manner me of man. — And behold, they shall be O ye Gentiles, it is wisd F and suffer not that these murderous combinations shall er On you, to your overthrow and destruction, if ye ae ‘ to be: wherefore the Lord when ye shall see these things come awake to a sense of your awful commandeth vl among you, that re a situation, because of Me cret combination which shall.be among you, or wo be Pr ae because of the blood of them which have been slain: ale cry from the dust for vengeance upon it, and who build it up. also For it cometh to pass that whoso WPoe sideth i up, seeketh to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nation:ae : ’ cae ‘on of all peo countries; and it bri ngeth to pass the destru : ction of ail» of p at ; ple: for it is built up by the devil, which the father o Ye ents;aparde’ lies; even that same liar which beguiled our is first a J . | sed man to comn even that same liar which hath cau Hi € which called by theand seash and there he pitch and alsoAblo hism, sons his ore, daudihtess pete all’ } “ss edh Save it were Jared andhis family. 5 © was his ae tent ie ; > 20usehold; 7 . i hcl ae ol ie hearts = And it came to pass that Jared anointed king over th people, by the hand of Wickedness:was and he SEER ts ae his daughter to wife: gave unto Akish And it caBs, me As to pas the life of his father-in-law; and he appliesd that Akish sought unto those whom é had sworn by the oath of the ancients, and they obtain. the head. of his father-in-law, as he sat iteen his " yo a audience to his peUple<foe sp guaee be pon i rone, giving this wicked and secret society, that it had of all the people ; therefore Jared was ‘trone, and Akish reigned in his stead 4 2 i : SS Therefore be: Wf ang and camefromoverthenc by ethecaut place Bed, hint wher ahde the BinaNeph -)ites a were dest lestroyae om in God that these things shout be shewn unto you, that there by ye may repent of your sils, these things G hold, camehis to pass that because of the sec Akish itarid five nds, behold they did eran ow nainati e ons of Omer; nevertheless, the Lord WaseerGifal antoOres a also to his sons and to his dnghters; whieh wewach plese did not seek his destruction Mid aie yedpebarre. Oar adream, that he should depart out of the Biner departed out of the land’with his famillandy and wherb efor —) e-d many days, and came over and aad diy eee a rm destroyed, for the Lord you, which are built up to get power and gain, and t ‘i work, yea, even the work of destruction come upon ea even the sword of the justice of the eternal God, shall fal Pf VY Anp now I, Moroni, proceed with my record. will not suffer that the blood of his saints, which shall be shed by them, shall always.cry unto him from the ground for vely Seance upon them, and yet he avengeth them not Reon above IV — ; of their 1€] oathhs and : ) CHAPTER combinations, for it hath been made known unto me that they are had among all people, and they are had among the Lamanites, and they have caused the destruction of this people of which I am now speaking, and also the destruction of the people of Nephi; and whatsoever nation shall uphold such secret | combinations, to get power and gain, until they shall spread over the nation, I, Moroni, am . not in secret combina: tions, neither doth he will that man should shed blood, but in all things hath Wherefore persuaded to do good continually, that they may come unto the fountain of all righteousness and be saved. formed a secret combination, even as they of old; which com- bination is a most abominable and wicked out from the beginning. commanded to write these things, that evil may be done away, and that the time may come that satan may have no power upon the hearts of the children of men, but that they may be dreds and friends, leading them away by fair it unto his kinpromises to do whatsoever thing he desired. And it came to pass that they sight of God: 555 from the beginning; which hath hardened the hearts of pee and to lie. whoredoms — And it was the daughter of Jared which put it into his heart to search up these things of old; and Jared put it into the heart of Akish; 60 ee asec re that Akish began to be jealous oF his sch is eae #1 UD in prison, and. to pass ’ ke, ; cept hi him upon aqsf Jj ; - orerefore he shut no food, until he had Suffered death. oh death, (and his n And do ae brother of him that suf. sac, er, )because of that which was Nimrah,) was angry with his tee? his father had done unto r. nD his bro dit came to pass that Nimrah gathe red together a i dl as a | Sa |