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Show HELAMAN. BOOK bear false witness against your neighbor, and this cause wo shall com for if ye will not repent behold this great city, and also all those great cities hic are round about, which are in the land of our possession, shel be taken away, that ye shall have no place in them: fo PPAR IR E A, Raat) ag ha behold, the Lord willa8 not grant untopaleryou strength, 4 ~ 6 ® 7 he )¢ np For ie hitherto done, to withstand, against your enemics. | the unto shew not J will hold, thus saith th@ Tord: shew unto the wicked ith the Lord: I wil not of my strength, to one more than the other, save 1 sins and hearken3 unto my r words; neir sins, those who repenteth of their > now : therefore a I would that ye + é } should S 7 my behold, that it shall be better for the Lamanites than for unite brethre ae ated ye shall repent ; for behold they are more ; be a |7 for they have nof sinned against that great knowle a : en be will Lord ye have received ; therefore the 7 roa wn days their out them; yea, he will lengthen seed, evén when thou shalt be utterly dest °3 io ae shalt repent; mination yea, wo be unto you because 0 | which™hath come among you; and ye aah i te a yourselves unto it, yea, to that secret band whict Sl lished by Gadianton; yea, wo shall come aly tear hd that pride which ye have suffered to enter i acaae vag hath lifted you up beyond that which is goo ete ii exceeding great riches ; a a yea, wo be unto you And except * ise ond wickedness and abominations. be taken - y obull | shall lands your even yea, perish; tees shall be destroyed from off the face of the ear 1a hold, a » of be, shall i do not say that these things God! Tord “ not of myself that I know these things ‘ that these things are true, because t : testify that © | ngs -. therefore | tes known made ther», fa shall be. . -_ ’ had sare Nephi dges, And now it came’to pass that when 3 whit! 7 words, behold there were men which were Judg vy were * belonged to the secret band of Gadianton, the. pe a. and they cried out against him, To being him for why do ye not seize upon this man - crime which be? he may be condemned according tot € done? Why seest thou this man, an : people, and against our law? this t ins aga s gape For him * , pehold, 429 bad spoken unto them concerning the corruptness of sheir law; yea, many things did: Nephi speak which cannot be writdid he tn; and nothing speak which were conirary to the commandments of God. And those Judges were angry with him because he spake plain unto them concerning their secret works of darkness ; nevertheless they durst not lay their own hands. upon him; for they feared the people, lest they should wy out against them; therefore they did cry unto the people, saying, Why do ye suffer this man to revile against us? For behold, he doth condemn all this people, even unto destructon; yea, and also that these our great cities shall be taken rom us, that we shall have no place in them. And now we know that this is impossible; for behold we are powerful, and our cities great; therefore our enemies can have no power oer us, And it came to pass that thus they did stir up the people to anger against Nephi, and raised contentions among them ; for there were some which did-ery out, Let this man lone, for he is a good man, and those things which he saith mil surely come to pass except werepent ; yea, behold all the | jdgem ents will come upon us Swi which he hath testified unto us; orwe know that he hath testified aright unto us concerning ‘ur iniquities. And behold they are many ; and he know eth ‘s well all things which shall befal us mqities; yea, and behold if he had as he knoweth of our not been a prophet he could not have testified conc erning those things. And it came ‘0 pass that those people which soug ht to destroy Nephi, were ‘ompelled because ands on him, of their fear, that they did not lay their Therefore he began again to Spea k unto them ree: that he had gained favor in the eyes of some, ‘at the rema insomuch inder of them did fear. Therefore he was con‘rained to speak more unto them , saying: Behold my breth“s have ye not read that God gave Power unto one man, even »oSes, to smite upon the waters of the Red Sea and they parted hither and thither, uther, inso 3 li whicchh 8 oe ee NeES, came throughmuch that the Israelites upon dry ground and the Valers close 7a a d upon tl 1€ armies of the | ey pti Egyp tians, and La SWallowAnd nowele behold, if God save unto man such power “Y should ye dispute among yoursthis elves, and say 40 given unto ; ae ee me no powej r wherebyby: J] maya knowen e conc iepanenis that shall be come upon you SS ~* gina But behold, ye not on] hes. hy all the words which hath feeSpokin eee en by our fathers, oe and OO HAS and steal, and do all manner of miquity; and for unto you except ye shail repent. df HELAMAN, Seg iis And ye have set your hearts upon the riches and the ray things of this world, for the which ye do murder, and plunder, OF ete OF te BOOK “ee 498 |