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Show | 6 H vin x, AY i de i i i a by SI i E 1 f ' i ws i} ' ! jf } Wy 4 { 1 Di Nh Juf i ’ 45 © , muy Gy an end of had /made Amulek that after to pass : ; fow it came these words, they withdrew themselves from the multitude and came over into the land of Jershon; yea, ana the rest o! the brethren, after they had preached the word unip the Zo™ 7 if ai { ramites, also came . ‘ > v8 v r eye . 6 RA vo } > EG kas TAQ { over into the land o} Jershon. X. populaggpart of the And it came to pass that4 after the. more erentTs ‘ ; oe Th ha ; ye NaAHUulA | Zoramites had consulted together, concerMiig the words which \had been preached unto them, they were angry because of the ta ‘word, for it did destroy their craft; therefore they would no’ hearken unto the words. And they sent and gathered together throughout all:the land, all the people, and consulted with them concerning the words which had been spoken. Now their rulers, and their priests, and their teachers, did not le the peopie know concerning their desires; therefore they ae found out privily the minds of all the people. the minds out found had they after that pass to came And it of all the people, those which were in favor o} the words whicof out had been spoken by Alma and his brethren, were cast intc also over came they and the land ; and they were many; me : the land of Jershon. And it came to pass that Alma and his bretnren did minis: ter unto them. Now the people of the Zovamites were _ r) with thepeople of Ammon which were ee ~ Wee And the people of Ammon departed out of the land of Jershon, and came over into the land of Melek, and gave place in tence, and hear with those afflictions, with a fiym hope that ye shall one day rest from all your afflictions. we ALMA. in Jershon, ane on chief ruleref the Zoramites being a very wicked man, a over unto thépeople of Ammon desiring them that they eg = heat im eid qi | OF the land of Jershon for the armies of the Nephites, that they might contend with the armies of the Lamanites, and the ar: mies of the Zoramites; and thus commenced a war betwixt the Lamanites and the Nephites, in the eighteenth year of the reign of the Judges ; and an account shall be given of their wars hereafter. And Alma, and Ammon, and their brethren. and also the two sons of Alma, returned to the land of Zara- hemla, after having been instruments in the hands of God of bringing many of the Zoramites to repentance; and as many as were brought to repentance, were driven out of their land; but they have lands for their inheritance in the land of Jershon. and they have taken up arms to defend themselves, and their wives, and their children, and their lands. - Now Alma, being sneved for the iniquity of his people, yea for the wars, and the bloodsheds, and the contentions which were amog them; and having been to declare the word, or sent to declare the Sidi among all the people in every city; and seeing that the be oe ee partes pla and that tiey began ms exceeding: sorrowful ; therefore,he coused that his cous should be gathered together that he thigh gine ite ti i Ne) ery one his charge , separately oA the Baar things iol ai Separately, concerning pertainig unto righteousness. And we have’an account of his com- mandments, which he gave unto them according to his own record, ¥ them" cast out of theirland all those which came over from their land. And he breathed out many threatnings ae them. And now the “people of Ammon did not agar but they dic w words, therefore they did-not cast them out, over ergs se came that es Géive all the poor of the Zoramit and ( ae them, clothe did and them, and they did nourish aaminy ; did they and ; ance inherit their for lands unto them untosthem according to their wants. Now this did Zoramites to anger against the people of Ammon, ns en sgt began to mix with the Lamanites, and to stir them Ss ile the mr anger against them: and thus the Zoramites and ites began to make. preparations for war against the peer id Ammon, and also against the Nephites. And thus re the pet seventeenth year of the reign of the Judges, over of Nephi. CHAPTER xvi.=-C.vf, ~y 2G 7/1 e The Commandments of Alma, to his son Helaman. ’ ¢ s s - My son, give ear to my words; for I swear unto you, that Hasmuch as ye shal | keep the commandments of God, ye shall eo that ye should do as I have one, in reme mInbering the captivity of our fathers; for a f bondage, and none could deliver them, except it the ‘6a cc iv Abraham, and the God of Isaac, “and the God of Prosper in the lan d “eae ® and he surely did deliver them in their afflictions.— ow, O my son Helainan, behold, thot art in thy youth, and therefore I bescech of Bee that thou wilt hear my words: t 21 ; : See i BOOK ALMA. = e?. OF 2 H j BOOK SSS ; “7 2D” 322 ti ee | ‘i | gs! |