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Show BOOK sacred OF BOOK OF ALMA, ALMA. word of God, to which we owe all our happi- and by all that is most dear unto us; yea, and this all; desires 1 command you by all the and stretched it forth unto them, saying unto them with a loud Even as this scalp hath fallen to the earth, yoice, saying: which is the scalp of your Chief, so shall ye fall to the earth, which ye have for life, that ye deliver up your weapons of war unto us, and we will seek not your blood, but we will spare your lives, if ye will go your way, and come not again to war against us.— And now if ye do not this, behold, ye are in our hands, and| will command my men that they shall fall upon you, and inflict the wounds of death in your bodies, that ye may become extinct; and then we will see who shall have power over this people ; yea, we will see who shall be brought into bondage. - And now it came to pass that when Zerahemoah had heard these sayings, he came forth and delivered up his sword ane his cimeter, and his bow, into the hands of Moroni, and saith unto him, Behold, here is our weapons of war; we will deliver them up unto you, and we will not suiler ourselves to take an path unto you, which we know that we shall break, and also our children; but take pur weapons of war, and suffer that we may depart into the wilderness; otherwise we will retain ei swords, and we will perish or conquer. Behold, we are not 0 your faith; we do not believe that it 1s God that hath delivere that us into your hands; but we believe that it 1s your cunning breast your is it Bebold, swords. our from you hath preserved plates, and your shields that hath preserved you. phites ; and they began to be swept And non death should cease again among tne people. And it came pass, that he took the weapons of war from the Lamanites : a i ne w/a alter they had entered into a covenant with him of peace, 01 4 a as said these words, Zerahemnah retained his sword, ant He slay: angry with Moroni, and he rushed forward that he ey Moroni; but as he raised his sword, behold, one of i 4 ae ae ad soldiers smote it even to the earth ; andit broke by the hn al to he also smote Zerahemnah, that he took off bis scp e™ from fell to the earth. And Zerahemnah withdrew them, into the midst of his soldiers. : n * , ci 4 And it came to pass that the soldier which from 0 scal| the up took S swerk) amote off the scalp of Zerahemnah, : ° é of bi the ground, by the hair, and laid it upon the pot eee to depart into the wilderness. Now the their dead were not numbered, because ofthe greatle pene ‘ et > yea, the number of their-dead w re xX both on the Nephites, and on the Lamanites.— ean to pass that they did_cast iheir dead into the wa- the ar Moron; stood tsby, W! as the sol- of their lives, that they never would come to war again against them. And it came to pass that Meroni caused that the work So grat except ye depart with an oath, that ye will not And now when even luightily unto Moroni, promising that he would covenant, and s0 his people, with them, if they would spare the remainder will end had received, unto Zerahemnah, saying, Behold, we } so which words the retain cannot I the conflict, Now spoken; therefore, as the Lord liveth, ye shall pore tions to which I have proposed. down, lier of Moroni had prophesied. Now Zerahemnah, when “Saw that they were all about to be destroyed, he'cried when Zerahemnah had made an end of speaking these worhe of war which Moroni returned the sword, and the weapons Now as ye are in our hands, against us to war. your blood upon the ground, or ye shall submit to except ye will deliver up your weapons of war, and depart, with acovenant of peace. Now there were many, when they heard these words, and saw the scalp which was upon the sword, they were struck with fear, atid many came forth and threw down their weapons of war, at the feet of Moroni, and entered into a covenant of peace. And as many as entered into a covenant, they suflered to depart into the wilderness. Now it came to pass that Zerahemnah was exceeding wroth, and he did stir up the remaimder of his soldiers to anger, to contend more powerfully against the Nephites. And now Moroni was angry, because of. the stubbornness of the Lamanites ; therefore he commanded his people that they should allupon them and slay them. And it came to pass that they began to slay them; yea, and the Lamanites did contend with their swords and their mights. But behold, chetrfiaked skins, and their bare heads, were exposed to the sharp swords of the Nephites; yea, behold, they were pierced and smitten; yea, and did fall exceeding fast before the swords of the Ne- n , and they we gone forth, and are buried in . the sea. And the armies of tne Nephites, or of And th x: : he dens) and came to their houses, and their lands. hded the eighteenth year of the reign’of the Judges © People of Nephi. And thus ended the record of Al- Which was wrote upon the plates of Nephi. f, N |