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Show BOOK OF NEPHI. ihr enemies ; yea, they the robbers ; for behold they had nothing save it were meat for their subsistence, which meat they did obtain in the wil- 9 became the Nephites were continually marching out by day and by night , and falling upon their ar J -mies, and cutting them off by thousands and by tens of thovAnd thus it became the desire of the people of Zemsands. great narihah, to withdraw from their design, because of the day. by and night by them upon come destruction which And did_ give comma themselves from unto his people, that they should withdraw of the erland, | parts ost / the siege, and marc h into ) theth fartherm o! te a aware being And now Gidgiddoni, northward. od ue of se becau ess weakn sign, and knowing of their among e among made been had Thic which hter food, and the great slaug in the night-time, them, therefore he did_send out his armies his arplace and did cut off the way of their y do iin the t he .did this mies in the way of their retreat ; and ropoer $0 the nd their march beyo night-time, and got on their adel hey that on the morrow, when the robbers i began i the Nephites, both in eir f retreat, and did = un tion shall call on the name of; their God forall protec as one; aes oo came to pass that they ae | 2 twenty and fifth; thu: “ye “tS passed away, and there hadand eae ar and Neyer wt the eyes of some ad ee ‘Vertheless h » Would Id b be great and marvellous ; » they cannot this ' all be written in this book ; done 0 zs cannot cont ain even a hundredth part of what yea was 5 80 many people, in the space of twenty and bee Se ys et LEP5 ares watt od eT Ce ro $6 TR ‘ rie ‘ % sna ws , Be : vn. - e. PEK at kn ‘ na me ue oe - = (r eee OT La a sayll-, and punished accorNee a nd thus they did_put an end to all those thich a secret, a abominable combinations, in the See were icke ans so mucuch wickedness, and so many murders Way, and th ius had the twenty and second year passed four " ae “ prenty and _ year also, and the twenty anf € Bare o1ce i and Ra oesSete APO : who didid not enter into a covenant, Se Tia n ho were : canteen continue to have those secret murders in their tin as many as were found breathing out threatening “ist their brethren, ci w vere con d emned . 58 Mihai i ees ° dic Se + . and a did fall 1} . intO prison, y would murder no more, were set at liberty ; but as there who yas di d still s "May the Lord preserve his people in righteousnes to ft] ; the earth ® fe liness of heart, that they may cause to be secret coll And ap “ who shall seek to slay them because of power the eart to fell been hath May binations, even as this man h one voice, ‘ (| ol they did rejoice and cry again wit 1 the na& the} ig Dole Isaac, : of God the and the God of Abraham, S ess,s, °SO i } Jacob, protect this; people in righteonsn ’ prisoners Word 0 “God to be preached unto them; and as bat the would repent of their sins and enter into a covenant a : savin a loud naan they md cast their ies did cry with their abominations. ith < iligene with all diligence, 7 iy and him until he was dead, ™ and &. the tree to the earth, when they had hanged until he a hot reof, sins, a halla the top. all their ait. tree, yea, even upon Me anit And of them “ ers unto the Nephites ; and the remainder and aay 6 taken, and their leader, Zemnarihah, was 2 thet ap coreake beac sit whoredomsis, and did_serve God o were things should ; i things were done by command of Gidgiddoni. oa many thousands which did yield themselves that all ee according to that which had been spoken ; there-( i And hownow j it came to pass that when they had taken all di An a they knew it must needs be frei - also be expedient that Christ had come, because of the many C which had been given, according to the words of the proP ao and because of the things which had come to pass al- the 5 Zh Prisoners, insomuch that none did escape which were were met_by the armies of soul, e on theaed And the robbers which wer i r rear. and inthei bai : cut off in their places of retreat. And were ii OP that Zemnarihah Was nota living soul among all the/people of the Nephites, which did doubt in the least thing in’ the words of all the holy tophets which had spoken; for they knew that it must needs be that they must be fulfilled; and they knew that it > to pass And it came ed from an everlasting destruction%/ And now behold there \ S hunger. to perish with a game wild ~~ the - that scarce in the wilderness, insomuch that the robbers were about did cry, Hosanna to the Most High God; and they did cry, Blessed be the name of the Lord God Almighty, the Most High God. And their hearts were wollen with joy, unto the gushing out of many tears, because othe great goodness of God in delivering them out of the lands of their enemies; and they knew it was because of lheir repentance and their humility that they had been deliv- tei ages Bas aig pass 465 . to it came And NEPHI. ad praising their God, for the great thing which he had done or them, in preserving them from falling into the hands of robbers to lay siege sufficiently long to have any effect upon the Nephites, because of their much provision which they had laid up in store because of the scantiness of provisions among derness. OF s pik: BOOK 2 |
