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familiar with all, and free with your substance, that they may be rich like unto you.

18. But before ye seek for riches, seek ye for the kingdom of God.

19. And after ye have obtained a hope in Christ, ye shall obtain riches, if ye seek them; and ye will seek them, for the intent to do good; to clothe the naked, and to feed the hungry, and to liberate the captive, and administer relief to the sick, and the afflicted.

20. And now, my brethren, I have spoken unto you concerning pride; and those of you which have afflicted your neighbour, and persecuted him because ye were proud in your hearts, of the things which God hath given you, what say ye of it?

21. Do ye not suppose that such things are abominable unto him who created all flesh? And the one being is as precious in his sight as the other. And all flesh is of the dust; and for the self-same end hath he created them, that they should keep his commandments, and glorify him for ever.

22. And now I make an end of speaking unto you concerning this pride. And were it not that I must speak unto you concerning a grosser crime, my heart would rejoice exceedingly, because of you.

23. But the word of God burthens me because of your grosser crimes. For behold, thus saith the Lord, This people begin to wax in iniquity; they understand not the scriptures; for they seek to excuse themselves in committing whoredoms, because of the things which were written concerning David, and Solomon his son.

24. Behold, David and Solomon truly had many wives and concubines, which thing was 'abominable before me, saith the Lord;

25. Wherefore, thus saith the Lord, I have led this people forth out of the land of Jerusalem, by the power of mine arm, that I might raise up unto me a "righteous branch from the fruit of the loins of Joseph.

26. Wherefore, I the Lord God, will not suffer that this people shall do like unto them of old.

27. Wherefore, my brethren, hear me, and hearken to the word of the Lord; for there shall not any man among you have save it be "one wife; and concubines he shall have none;

28. For I, the Lord God, delighteth in the chastity of women. And whoredoms are an abomination before me; thus saith the Lord of Hosts.

29. Wherefore, this people shall keep my command

IV. Nep. 3, 24-26.

k, 1. Kings

j, Mos. 4:16, 22, 26. Alma 1: 26-30. 11: 1-13. Deut. 17: 14-17. II. Sam. 3: 2-5, 14. 5: 13. 11: 26, 27.

12: 7-12, 24. 15: 16. 16: 21, 22. 2, 1. Kings 11:1-11. Deut. 7: 1-4. Deut 17: 14-17. m, II. Nep. 3:5. 1. Nep. 28.

19: 5. 20: 3.
Ezra 9:1, 2.
n, ver. 34.

1. Kings 1: 1-4. Nehemiah 13: 23-27. Jacob 3:5--7. 0, see

ments, saith the Lord of Hosts, or Pcursed be the land for their sakes.

30. For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts, raise up seed unto me, I will command my people; otherwise they shall hearken unto "these things.

31. For behold, I, the Lord, have seen the sorrow, and heard the mourning of the daughters of my people in the land of Jerusalem; yea, and in all the lands of my people, because of the wickedness and abominations of their husbands.

32. And I will not suffer, saith the Lord of Hosts, that the cries of the fair daughters of this people, which I have led out of the land of Jerusalem, shall come up unto me, against the men of my people, saith the Lord of Hosts;

33. For they shall not lead away captive the daughters of my people, because of their tenderness, save I shall visit them with a sore curse, even unto destruction: for they shall not commit "whoredoms, like unto them of old, saith the Lord of Hosts.

34. And now behold, my brethren, ye know that these commandments were "given to our father, Lehi; wherefore ye have known them before; and ye have come unto great condemnation; for ye have done these things, which ye ought not to have done.

35. Behold, ye have done greater iniquities than the Lamanites, our brethren. Ye have broken the hearts of your tender wives, and lost the confidence of your children, because of your bad examples before them; and the sobbings of their hearts ascend up to God against you. And because of the "strictness of the word of God, which cometh down against you, many hearts died, pierced with deep wounds.

CHAPTER 3.

1. BUT behold, I, Jacob, would speak unto you that are pure in heart. Look unto God with firmness of mind, and "pray unto him with exceeding faith, and he will console you in your afflictions and he will plead your cause, and send down justice upon those who seek your destruction.

2. O all ye that are pure in heart, lift up your heads and receive the pleasing word of God, and feast upon his love; for ye may, if your minds are firm, for ever.

3. But wo, wo, unto you that are not pure in heart; that

P, Jacob 3: 3.

Alma 45: 16.

Ether 2: 7-12. 9, See Rev. on marriage, given in 1843. Doc. & Cov. 132. r, the law given to Lehi. See vers. 27, 8, Ezek. 16: 22-43. t, see p. u, see i, II. Nep. 28. w, Jacob 2: 27, 34. 3:5.

34. Jacob 3: 5.
v, I. Nep. 1: 16, 17.

6:1.

a, see e, u. Nep. 32.

are filthy this day before God; for except ye repent, the land is 'cursed for your sakes; and the Lamanites, which are not filthy like unto you, (nevertheless, they are cursed with a sore cursing) shall scourge you even unto destruction.

4. And the time speedily cometh, that except ye repent, they shall possess the land of your inheritance, and the Lord God will lead away the righteous out from among you.

5. Behold, the Lamanites your brethren, whom ye hate, because of their filthiness and the cursings which hath come upon their skins, are more righteous than you; for they have not forgotten the commandment of the Lord, which was given unto our fathers, that they should have, save it were fone wife; and concubines they should have none; and there should not be whoredoms committed among them.

6. And now this commandment they observe to keep; wherefore, because of this observance, in keeping this commandment, the Lord God will not destroy them, but will be merciful unto them; and one day they shall become a blessed people.

7. Behold, their husbands love their wives, and their wives love their husbands; and their husbands and their wives love their children; and their unbelief and their hatred towards you, is because of the iniquity of their fathers; wherefore, how much better are you than they, in the sight of your great Creator?

8. O my brethren, I fear, that unless ye shall repent of your sins, that their skins will be whiter than yours, when ye shall be brought with them before the throne of God.

9. Wherefore, a commandment I give unto you, which is the word of God, that ye revile no more against them, because of the "darkness of their skins; neither shall ye revile against them because of their filthiness; but ye shall remember your own filthiness, and remember that their filthiness came because of their fathers.

10. Wherefore, ye shall remember your children, how that ye have grieved their hearts because of the example that ye have set before them; and also, remember that ye may, because of your filthiness, bring your children unto destruction, and their sins be heaped upon your heads at the last day.

11. O my brethren, hearken unto my word; arouse the faculties of your soul; shake yourselves, that ye may awake from the slumber of death; and loose yourselves from the pains of hell, that ye may not become angels to the devil, to be cast into that lake of fire and brimstone which is the second death.

12. And now I, Jacob, spake many more things unto the 2. d, Omni 1: 5-7, 12, 13. 9, 1. Nep. 15: 13-18. 22: 8. i, see k

b, see p, Jacob 2. c, see d, I. Nep. e, see d, 1. Nep. 2. f, see n, Jacob 2. See i, II. Nep. 3. h, see d, I. Nep. 2. 1. Nep. 15.

i, see i, I. Nep. 9.

people of Nephi, warning them against fornication and lasciviousness, and every kind of sin, telling them the awful consequences of them;

13. And a hundredth part of the proceedings of this people, which now began to be numerous, cannot be written upon these plates; but many of their proceedings are written upon the larger plates, and their wars, and their contentions, and the reigns of their kings.

14. These plates are called the plates of Jacob, and they were made by the "hand of Nephi. And I make an end of speaking these words.

CHAPTER 4.

1. Now behold, it came to pass that I, Jacob, having ministered much unto my people in word, (and I cannot write but a little of my words, because of the "difficulty of engraving our words upon plates,) and we know that the things which we write upon plates must remain ;

2. But whatsoever things we write upon any thing, save it be upon plates, must perish and vanish away; but we can write a few words upon plates, which will give our children, and also our beloved brethren, a small degree of knowledge concerning us, or concerning their fathers.

3. Now in this thing we do rejoice; and we labour diligently to engraven these words upon plates, hoping that our beloved brethren, and our children, will receive them with thankful hearts, and look upon them that they may learn with joy and not with sorrow, neither with contempt, concerning their first parents:

4. For, for this intent have we written these things, that they may know that we knew of Christ, and we had a hope of his glory many hundred years before his coming; and not only we ourselves had a hope of his glory, but also all the holy prophets which were before us.

5. Behold, they believed in Christ and worshipped the Father in his name, and also we worship the Father in his name. And for this intent we 'keep the law of Moses, it pointing our souls to him; and for this cause it is sanctified unto us for righteousness, even as it was accounted unto Abraham in the wilderness, to be obedient unto the commands of God in offering up his son Isaac, which is a similitude of God and his only begotten Son.

6. Wherefore, we search the prophets, and we have many revelations, and the Spirit of prophecy; and having all these witnesses we obtain a hope, and our faith becometh k, small plates. See b, I. Nep. 6. 1, see f, I. Nep. 1. 2, 3. II. Nep. 5: 30-32.

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m, 1. Nep. 19:

unshaken, insomuch that we truly can command in the name of Jesus, and the very trees obey us, or the mountains, or the waves of the sea:

7. Nevertheless, the Lord God sheweth us our weakness, that we may know that it is by his grace, and his great condescensions unto the children of men, that we have power to do these things.

8. Behold, great and marvellous are the works of the Lord. How unsearchable are the depths of the mysteries of him; and it is impossible that man should find out all his ways. And no man knoweth of his ways, save it be revealed unto him; wherefore, brethren, despise not the revelations of God.

9. For behold, by the "power of his word, man came upon the face of the earth! which earth was created by the power of his word. Wherefore, if God being able to speak, and the world was, and to speak, and man was created, O then, why not able to command the earth, or the workmanship of his hands upon the face of it, according to his will and pleasure?

10. Wherefore, brethren, seek not to counsel the Lord, but to take counsel from his hand. For behold, ye yourselves know that he counselleth in wisdom, and in justice, and in great mercy, over all his works;

11. Wherefore, beloved brethren, be reconciled unto him through the atonement of Christ, his only begotten Son, and ye may obtain a resurrection, according to the power of the resurrection which is in Christ, and be presented as the first-fruits of Christ unto God, having faith, and obtained a good hope of glory in him before he manifesteth himself in the flesh.

12. And now, beloved, marvel not that I tell you these things; for why not speak of the "atonement of Christ, and attain to a perfect knowledge of him, as to attain to the knowledge of a 'resurrection and the world to come?

13. Behold, my brethren, he that prophesieth, let him prophesy to the understanding of men; for the Spirit speaketh the truth and lieth not. Wherefore, it speaketh of things as they really are, and of things as they really will be; wherefore, these things are manifested unto us plainly, for the salvation of our souls. But behold, we are not witnesses alone in these things; for God also spake them unto prophets of old.

14. But behold, the Jews were a stiffnecked people; and they despised the words of plainness, and killed the prophets, and sought for things that they could not under

Jacob 7: 13-19. Mos. 13:3-6. III. Nep. 28: 19-22. Mor. 8: 24. Mor. 9: 17. Mos. 2: 25. e, see g, Mos. 15: 21-23. Alma 40: h, see f, II. Nep. 2. 2, see k, II. Nep. 25: 2. Jacob 6:4.

c, I. Nep. 7: 17, 18. 17: 48, 50, 53-55. Alma 14: 26-29. Hela. 10: 5-11. Ether 12: 30. d, II. Nep. 2: 14, 15. f, II. Nep. 2. f, see d, II. Nep. 2. 16-21. Hela. 14: 25. III. Nep. 23: 9-13. d, II. Nep. 2. j, see b, 11. Nep. 25.

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