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06 - Book of Mormon - Joseph Smith Jr · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: First Nephi, Chapters twenty through twenty two. Chapter twenty, hearken
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  Speaker 1: and hear this o house of Jacob, who are called
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  Speaker 1: by the name of Israel, and are come forth out
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  Speaker 1: of the waters of Judah or out of the waters
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  Speaker 1: of Baptism, who swear by the name of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: and make mention of the God of Israel. Yet they
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  Speaker 1: swear not in truth nor in righteousness. Nevertheless, they call
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  Speaker 1: themselves of the Holy City. But they do not stay
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  Speaker 1: themselves upon the God of Israel, who is the Lord
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  Speaker 1: of hosts. Yea, the Lord of Hosts is his name. Behold.
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  Speaker 1: I have declared the former things from the beginning, and
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  Speaker 1: they went forth out of my mouth, and I showed them.
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  Speaker 1: I did show them suddenly, and I did it because
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  Speaker 1: I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is
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  Speaker 1: an iron sinew, and thy brow brass. And I have
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  Speaker 1: from the beginning declared it to THEE, before it came
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  Speaker 1: to pass that I showed them THEE. And I showed
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  Speaker 1: them for fear lest thou shouldst say mine idol hath
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  Speaker 1: done them, and my graven image at my molti an
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  Speaker 1: image hath commanded them. Thou hast seen and heard all this,
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  Speaker 1: and will ye not declare them? And I have showed
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  Speaker 1: THEE new things from this time, even hidden things, and
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  Speaker 1: thou didst not know them. They are created now and
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  Speaker 1: not from the beginning, even before the day when thou
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  Speaker 1: hurtest them. Not they were declared unto THEE. Lest thou
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  Speaker 1: shouldst say, behold, I knew them, yea, an thou hurdest
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  Speaker 1: not yea. Thou knewest not yea. From that time thine
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  Speaker 1: ear was not opened, for I knew that thou wouldst
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  Speaker 1: deal very treacherously and wast called a transgressor from the womb. Nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: for my name's sake, will I defer mine anger and
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  Speaker 1: for my praise? Will I refrain from THEE that I
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  Speaker 1: cut THEE not off, For behold, I have refined THEE.
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  Speaker 1: I have chosen THEE in the furnace of affliction for
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  Speaker 1: mine own sake, Yea, for mine own sake? Will I
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  Speaker 1: do this? For I will not suffer my name to
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  Speaker 1: be polluted. And I will not give my glory unto another.
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  Speaker 1: Hearken unto me. O Jacob and Israel my called for
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  Speaker 1: I am he. I am the first, and I am
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  Speaker 1: also the last. Mine hand. Hath also laid the foundation
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  Speaker 1: of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens.
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  Speaker 1: I call unto them, and they stand up together. All
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  Speaker 1: ye assemble yourselves, And here who among them hath declared
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  Speaker 1: these things unto them? The Lord hath loved him, yea,
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  Speaker 1: and he will fulfill his word which ye hath declared
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  Speaker 1: by them, And he will do his pleasure on Babylon,
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  Speaker 1: and his arms shall come upon the Chaldeans. And also
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  Speaker 1: saith the Lord I, the Lord Yea, I have spoken, yea.
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  Speaker 1: I have called him to declare. I have brought him,
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  Speaker 1: and he shall make his way prosperous. Come ye near
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  Speaker 1: unto me. I have not spoken in secret from the beginning,
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  Speaker 1: from the time that it was declared, have I spoken?
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  Speaker 1: And the Lord God and his spirit hath sent me.
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  Speaker 1: And thus saith the Lord, Thy Redeemer, the Holy One
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  Speaker 1: of Israel. I have sent him, the Lord Thy God.
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  Speaker 1: But who teacheth thee to profit, who leadeth thee by
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  Speaker 1: the way thou shouldst go? Hath done it? Oh that
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  Speaker 1: thou hadst hearkened to My commandments. Then had thy peace
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  Speaker 1: been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves
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  Speaker 1: of the sea, thy sea. It also had been as sand,
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  Speaker 1: the offspring of thy bowels, like the gravel thereof his name,
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  Speaker 1: should not have been cut off nor destroyed. From before me.
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  Speaker 1: Go ye forth of Babylon. Flee ye from the Chaldeans,
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  Speaker 1: with a voice singing, declare ye tell this utter to
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  Speaker 1: the end of the earth. Say ye. The Lord Hath
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  Speaker 1: redeemed his servant Jacob, and they thirsted. Not he led
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  Speaker 1: them through the deserts. He caused the waters to flow
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  Speaker 1: out of the rock for them. He claved the rock also,
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  Speaker 1: and the waters gushed out. And notwithstanding he hath done
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  Speaker 1: all this and greater also, there is no peace, saith
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  Speaker 1: the Lord unto the wicked Chapter twenty one. And again hearken, o,
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  Speaker 1: ye house of Israel, all ye that are broken off
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  Speaker 1: and are driven because of the wickedness of the pastors
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  Speaker 1: of my people. Yea, all that are broken off, that
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  Speaker 1: are scattered abroad, Who are of my people? O, house
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  Speaker 1: of Israel? Listen o isles unto me, And hearken ye
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  Speaker 1: people from far. The Lord Hath called me from the womb,
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  Speaker 1: from the bowels of my mother, and hath made mention
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  Speaker 1: of my name. And he hath made my mouth like
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  Speaker 1: a sharp sword in the shadow of his hand. Hath
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  Speaker 1: He hid me and made me a polished shaft in
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  Speaker 1: his quiver. Hath He hid me. And he said, unto me,
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  Speaker 1: thou art my servant o Israel, in whom I will
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  Speaker 1: be glorified. Then I said, I have labored in vain.
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  Speaker 1: I have spent my strength for naught, and in vain.
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  Speaker 1: Surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work
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  Speaker 1: with my God. And now saith the Lord that formed
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  Speaker 1: me from the womb, that I should be his servant
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  Speaker 1: to bring Jacob again to him. Though Israel be not gathered, yet,
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  Speaker 1: shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: And my God shall be my strength. And he said,
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  Speaker 1: it is a light that thou shouldst be my servant
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  Speaker 1: to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore
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  Speaker 1: the preserved of Israel. I will also give thee for
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  Speaker 1: a light to the gentiles, that thou mayest be my
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  Speaker 1: salvation unto the ends of the earth. Thus saith the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: the Redeemer of Israel, his holy One, to him whom
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  Speaker 1: man despiseth, to him whom the nation of horith, to
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  Speaker 1: servant of rulers, King shall see and arise. Princes also
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  Speaker 1: shall worship because of the Lord that is faithful. Thus
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  Speaker 1: saith the Lord. In an acceptable time. Have I heard
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  Speaker 1: thee o isles of the sea, And in a day
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  Speaker 1: of salvation have I helped thee. And I will preserve thee,
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  Speaker 1: and give thee my servant. For a covenant of the people,
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  Speaker 1: to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages,
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  Speaker 1: that thou mayest say to the prisoners, go forth, to
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  Speaker 1: them that sit in darkness, show yourselves. They shall feed
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  Speaker 1: in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all
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  Speaker 1: high places. They shall not hunger nor thirst. Neither shall
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  Speaker 1: the heat nor the unsmite them. For he that hath
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  Speaker 1: mercy on them shall lead them. Even by the springs
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  Speaker 1: of water shall he guide them. And I will make
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  Speaker 1: my mountains away and by highways shall be exalted. And then,
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  Speaker 1: O House of Israel, behold, these shall come from far
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  Speaker 1: and lo, these from the north and from the west,
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  Speaker 1: and these from the land of Sinnam, sing o heavens,
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  Speaker 1: and be joyful, O Earth, For the feet of those
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  Speaker 1: who are in the east shall be established, and break
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  Speaker 1: forth into singing o mountains, For they shall be smitten
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  Speaker 1: no more, for the Lord hath comforted his people and
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  Speaker 1: will have mercy upon his afflicted. But behold, Zion hath said,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord hath forsaken me, and my lord hath forgotten me.
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  Speaker 1: But he will show that he hath nought. For can
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  Speaker 1: a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not
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  Speaker 1: have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they
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  Speaker 1: may forget, Yet I will not forget THEE, O house
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  Speaker 1: of Israel. Behold, I have graven THEE upon the palms
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  Speaker 1: of my hands. Thy walls are continually for me. Thy
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  Speaker 1: children shall make haste against thy destroyers, and they that
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  Speaker 1: made THEE waste shall go forth of THEE. Lift up
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  Speaker 1: thine eyes round about, and behold all these gathered themselves together,
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  Speaker 1: And they shall come to THEE. And as I live
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  Speaker 1: saith the Lord, thou shalt surely clothe THEE with them
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  Speaker 1: all as with an ornament, and bind them on even
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  Speaker 1: as a bride. For thy waste and thy desolate places,
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  Speaker 1: and the land of thy destruction shall even now be
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  Speaker 1: too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, And they that
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  Speaker 1: swallowed thee up shall be far away. The children whom
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  Speaker 1: thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the first, shall again,
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  Speaker 1: in thy ears say the place is too strait for me,
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  Speaker 1: give place to me that I may dwell. Then shalt
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  Speaker 1: thou say in thine heart, who hath begotten me these?
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  Speaker 1: Seeing I have lost my children and am desolate, a
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  Speaker 1: captive and removing to and fro. And who hath brought
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  Speaker 1: up these? Behold? I was left alone these where had
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  Speaker 1: they been? Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will
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  Speaker 1: lift up my hand to the gentiles and set up
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  Speaker 1: my standard to the people. And they shall bring thy
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  Speaker 1: sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried
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  Speaker 1: upon their shoulders, and king shall be thy nursing fathers,
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  Speaker 1: and their queens thy nursing mothers. They shall bow down
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  Speaker 1: to thee with their face towards the earth, and lick
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  Speaker 1: up the dust of thy feet. And thou shalt know
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  Speaker 1: that I am the Lord, for they shall not be
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  Speaker 1: ashamed that wait for me. For shall the prey be
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  Speaker 1: taken from the Mighty, or the lawful captives delivered? But
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  Speaker 1: thus saith the Lord, even the captives of the Mighty
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  Speaker 1: shall be taken away, and the prey of the Terrible
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  Speaker 1: shall be delivered, for I will contend with them that
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  Speaker 1: contended with THEE, and I will save thy children. And
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  Speaker 1: I will feed on them that oppress THEE with their
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  Speaker 1: own flesh, and they shall be drunken with their own blood,
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  Speaker 1: as with sweet wine, and all flesh shall know that
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  Speaker 1: I the Lord, am thy Savior and thy Redeemer, the
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  Speaker 1: mighty One of Jacoba two twenty two. And now it
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  Speaker 1: came to pass that after I Nephi had read these
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  Speaker 1: things which were engraven upon the plates of brass, my
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  Speaker 1: brethren came unto me and said, unto me, what meaneth
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  Speaker 1: these things which ye have read? Behold are they to
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  Speaker 1: be understood according to things which are spiritual, which shall
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  Speaker 1: come to pass according to the Spirit, and not the flesh.
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  Speaker 1: And I Nephi said unto them, behold, they were manifest
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  Speaker 1: unto the prophet, by the voice of the Spirit. For
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  Speaker 1: by the Spirit are all things made known unto the prophets,
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  Speaker 1: which shall come upon the children of men according to
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  Speaker 1: the flesh. Wherefore, the things of which I have read
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  Speaker 1: are things pertaining to things both temporal and spiritual. For
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  Speaker 1: it appears that the House of Israel, sooner or later
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  Speaker 1: will be scattered upon all the face of the earth,
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  Speaker 1: and also among all nations. And behold, there are many
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  Speaker 1: who are already lost from the knowledge of those who
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  Speaker 1: are at Jerusalem. Yea, the more part of all the
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  Speaker 1: tribes have been led away, and they are scattered to
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  Speaker 1: and fro upon the isles of the sea. And whether
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  Speaker 1: they are none of us knoweth, save we know that
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  Speaker 1: they have been led away. And since they have been
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  Speaker 1: led away, these things have been prophesied concerning them, and
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  Speaker 1: also concerning all those who shall hereafter be scattered and
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  Speaker 1: be confounded because of the Holy One of Israel. For
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  Speaker 1: against Him will they harden their hearts. Wherefore they shall
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  Speaker 1: be scattered among all nations, and shall be hated of
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  Speaker 1: all men. Nevertheless, after they shall be nursed by the gentiles.
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  Speaker 1: And the Lord has lifted up his hand upon the
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  Speaker 1: gentiles and set them up for a standard, and their
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  Speaker 1: children have been carried in their arms, and their daughters
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  Speaker 1: have been carried upon their shoulders. Behold, these things of
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  Speaker 1: which are spoken are temporal. For thus are the commandments
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord with our fathers, And it meaneth in
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  Speaker 1: the days to come. And also all our brethren, who
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  Speaker 1: are of the House of Israel. And it meaneth that
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  Speaker 1: the time cometh that, after all the House of Israel
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  Speaker 1: have been scattered and confounded, that the Lord God will
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  Speaker 1: raise up a mighty nation among the gentiles. Yea, even
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  Speaker 1: upon the face of this land, and by them shall
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  Speaker 1: our seed be scattered. And after our seed is scattered,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord God will proceed to do a marvelous work
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  Speaker 1: amae the gentiles, which shall be of great worth unto
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  Speaker 1: our seed. Wherefore it is likened unto their being nourished
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  Speaker 1: by the gentiles, and being carried in their arms and
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  Speaker 1: upon their shoulders. And it shall also be of worth
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  Speaker 1: unto the gentiles, and not only unto the gentiles, but
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  Speaker 1: unto all the House of Israel, unto the making known
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  Speaker 1: of the covenants of the Father of Heaven, unto Abraham, saying,
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  Speaker 1: in thy seed shall the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
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  Speaker 1: And I would my brethren, that ye should know that
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  Speaker 1: all the kindreds of the earth cannot be blessed unless
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  Speaker 1: he shall make bear his arm in the eyes of
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  Speaker 1: the nations. Wherefore, the Lord God will proceed to make
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  Speaker 1: bear his arm in the eyes of all the nations,
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  Speaker 1: in bringing about his covenants and his gospel unto those
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  Speaker 1: who are of the House of Israel. Wherefore he will
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  Speaker 1: bring them again out of captivity, and they shall be
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  Speaker 1: gathered together to the lands of their inheritance, and they
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  Speaker 1: shall be brought out of obscurity and out of darkness,
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  Speaker 1: and they shall know that the Lord is their savior
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  Speaker 1: and their redeemer, the Mighty One of Israel. And the
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  Speaker 1: blood of the Great and abominable Church, which is the
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  Speaker 1: whore of all the earth, shall turn upon their own heads,
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  Speaker 1: for they shall war among themselves, and the sword of
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  Speaker 1: their own hands shall fall upon their own heads, and
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  Speaker 1: they shall be drunken with their own blood. And every
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  Speaker 1: nation which shall war against thee O House of Israel
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  Speaker 1: shall be turned one against another, and they shall fall
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  Speaker 1: into the pit which they digged to ensnare the people
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord. And all that fight against Zion shall
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  Speaker 1: be destroyed. And that great whore who hath perverted the
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  Speaker 1: right ways of the Lord. Yea, that great and abominable
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  Speaker 1: Church shall tumble to the dust, and great shall be
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  Speaker 1: the fall of it. For behold saith the Prophet, the
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  Speaker 1: time cometh speedily that Satan shall have no more power
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  Speaker 1: over the hearts of the children of men. For the
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  Speaker 1: day soon cometh that all the proud and they who
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  Speaker 1: do wickedly shall be as stubble, and the day cometh
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  Speaker 1: that they must be burned. For the time soon cometh
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  Speaker 1: that the fullness of the wrath of God shall be
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  Speaker 1: poured out upon all the children of men. For He
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  Speaker 1: will not suffer that the wicked shall destroy the righteous.
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  Speaker 1: Wherefore he will preserve the righteous by his power, even
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  Speaker 1: if it so be that the fullness of his wrath
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  Speaker 1: must come, and the righteous be preserved even unto the
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  Speaker 1: destruction of their enemies by fire. Wherefore the righteous need
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  Speaker 1: not fear, For thus saith the Prophet, they shall be saved,
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  Speaker 1: even if it so be as by fire. Behold, my brethren,
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  Speaker 1: I say unto you that these things must shortly come. Yea,
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  Speaker 1: even blood and fire and vapor of smoke must come,
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  Speaker 1: and it must needs be upon the face of the earth.
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  Speaker 1: And it cometh unto men according to the flesh. If
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  Speaker 1: it so be, that they will harden their hearts against
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  Speaker 1: the Holy One of Israel, for behold, the righteous shall
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  Speaker 1: not perish. For the time surely must come that all
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  Speaker 1: they who fight against Zion shall be cut off and
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  Speaker 1: the Lord will surely prepare away for his people unto
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  Speaker 1: the fulfilling of the words of Moses, which he spake,
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  Speaker 1: saying a prophet, shall the Lord your God raise up
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  Speaker 1: unto you like unto me? Him shall ye hear in
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  Speaker 1: all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. And it
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  Speaker 1: shall come to pass that all those who will not
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  Speaker 1: hear that prophet shall be cut off from among the people.
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  Speaker 1: And now I Nephi declare unto you that this prophet
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  Speaker 1: of whom Moses spake was the Holy One of Israel.
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  Speaker 1: Wherefore he shall execute judgment in righteousness. And the righteous
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  Speaker 1: need not fear, for they are those who shall not
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  Speaker 1: be confounded. But it is the kingdom of the devil
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  Speaker 1: which shall be built up among the children of men.
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  Speaker 1: Which kingdom is established among them which are in the flesh.
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  Speaker 1: For the time speedily shall come that all churches which
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  Speaker 1: are built up to get gain, and all those who
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  Speaker 1: are built up to get power over the flesh, and
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  Speaker 1: those who are built up to become popular in the
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  Speaker 1: eyes of the world, and those who seek the lusts
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  Speaker 1: of the flesh and the things of the world, and
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  Speaker 1: do all manner of iniquity, yea and find all those
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  Speaker 1: who belong to the kingdom of the devil. Are they
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  Speaker 1: who need fear and tremble and quake. They are those
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  Speaker 1: who must be brought low in the dust. They are
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  Speaker 1: those who must be consumed as stubble. And this is
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  Speaker 1: according to the words of the prophet. And the time
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  Speaker 1: cometh speedily that the righteous must be led up as
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  Speaker 1: calves of the stall. And the Holy One of Israel
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  Speaker 1: must reign in dominion and might and power and great glory.
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  Speaker 1: And he gathereth his children from the four quarters of
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  Speaker 1: the earth, and he numbereth his sheep, and they know him.
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  Speaker 1: And there shall be one fold and one shepherd, and
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  Speaker 1: he shall feed his sheep, and in him they shall
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  Speaker 1: find pasture. And because of the righteousness of his people,
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  Speaker 1: Satan has no power. Wherefore he cannot be loosed for
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  Speaker 1: the space of many years. For he hath no power
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  Speaker 1: over the hearts of the people, for they dwell in righteousness.
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  Speaker 1: And the Holy One of Israel reigneth. And now behold,
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  Speaker 1: I Nephi say unto you that all these things must
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  Speaker 1: come according to the flesh. But behold, all nations, kindreds, tongues,
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  Speaker 1: and people shall dwell safely in the Holy One of Israel,
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  Speaker 1: if it so be that they will repent, And now I, Nephi,
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  Speaker 1: make an end, for I durst not speak further as
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  Speaker 1: yet concerning these things. Wherefore, my brethren, I would that
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  Speaker 1: ye should consider that the things which have been written
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  Speaker 1: upon the plates of brass are true, and they testify
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  Speaker 1: that a man must be obedient to the commandments of God.
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  Speaker 1: Wherefore ye need not suppose that I and my father
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  Speaker 1: are the only ones that have testified and also taught them. Wherefore,
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  Speaker 1: if ye shall be obedient to the commandments and endure
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  Speaker 1: to the end, ye shall be saved at the last day.
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  Speaker 1: And thus it is amen. End of First Nephi, chapters
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  Speaker 1: twenty through twenty two.