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Mormon 6
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| 6:1 And now I finish my record concerning the destruction of my people, the Nephites.
And it came to pass that we
did march forth before the Lamanites. |
And it came to pass
(6:1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15)
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| 6:2 And I, Mormon, wrote an epistle unto the king of the Lamanites, and desired of him that he would grant
unto us that we might gather together our people unto the land of Cumorah, by a hill which was called Cumorah, and there
we could give them battle. |
(6:2-5)
Mormon wrote a letter to the Lamanite king asking him to fight a war with the Nephites at hill Cumorah (near Manchester, New York).
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| 6:3 And it came to pass that the king of the Lamanites did grant unto me
the thing which I desired. |
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| 6:4 And it came to pass that
we did march forth to the land of Cumorah, and we did pitch our tents around about
the hill Cumorah; and it was in a land of many waters, rivers, and fountains; and here we had hope to gain advantage over
the Lamanites. |
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| 6:5 And when three hundred and eighty and four years had passed away, we had gathered in all the remainder of
our people unto the land of Cumorah. |
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| 6:6 And it came to pass that when
we had gathered in all our people in one to the land of Cumorah, behold I,
Mormon, began to be old; and knowing it to be the last struggle of my people, and having been commanded of the Lord that I
should not suffer the records which had been handed down by our fathers, which were sacred, to fall into the hands of the
Lamanites, (for the Lamanites would destroy them) therefore I made this record out of the plates of Nephi, and hid up in
the hill Cumorah all the records which had been entrusted to me by the hand of the Lord, save it were these few plates which
I gave unto my son Moroni. |
Mormon decides to write down a record on the plates of Nephi and bury them on hill Cumorah.
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| 6:7 And it came to pass that my people, with their wives and their children, did now behold the armies of the
Lamanites marching towards them; and with that awful fear of death which fills the breasts of all the wicked, did they
await to receive them. |
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| 6:8 And it came to pass that they came to battle against us, and every soul was filled with terror because of
the greatness of their numbers. |
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| 6:9 And it came to pass that
they did fall upon my people with the sword, and with the bow, and with the arrow,
and with the ax, and with all manner of weapons of war. |
 (6:9, 15)
"They did fall upon my people with the sword."
But there were no swords in the pre-Columbian New World.
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| 6:10 And it came to pass that
my men were hewn down, yea, even my ten thousand who were with me, and I fell
wounded in the midst; and they passed by me that they did not put an end to my life. |
(6:10-15) The Lamanites
killed 230,000 Nephite soldiers in one day near hill Cumorah. |
| 6:11 And when they had gone through and hewn down all my people save it were twenty and four of us, (among whom
was my son Moroni) and we having survived the dead of our people, did behold on the morrow, when the Lamanites had returned
unto their camps, from the top of the hill Cumorah, the ten thousand of my people who were hewn down, being led in the front
by me. |
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| 6:12 And we also beheld the ten thousand of my people who were led by my son Moroni.
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| 6:13 And behold, the ten thousand of Gidgiddonah had fallen, and he also in the midst. |
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| 6:14 And
Lamah had fallen with his ten thousand; and Gilgal had fallen with
his ten thousand; and Limhah had fallen with
his ten
thousand; and Jeneum had fallen with his ten thousand; and
Cumenihah, and Moronihah, and Antionum, and Shiblom, and Shem,
and Josh, had fallen with their ten thousand each. |
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| 6:15 And it came to pass that
there were ten more who did fall by the sword,
with their ten thousand each;
yea, even all my people, save it were those twenty and four who were with me, and also a few who had escaped into the south
countries, and a few who had deserted over unto the Lamanites, had fallen; and their flesh, and bones, and blood lay upon
the face of the earth, being left by the hands of those who slew them to molder upon the land, and to crumble and to return
to their mother earth. |
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| 6:16 And my soul was rent with anguish, because of the slain of my people, and I cried: |
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| 6:17 O ye fair ones, how could ye have departed from the ways of the Lord! O ye fair ones, how could ye have
rejected that Jesus, who stood with open arms to receive you! |
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| 6:18 Behold, if ye had not done this, ye would not have fallen. But behold, ye are fallen, and I mourn
your loss. |
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| 6:19 O ye fair sons and daughters, ye fathers and mothers, ye husbands and wives, ye fair ones, how is it that
ye could have fallen! |
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| 6:20 But behold, ye are gone, and my sorrows cannot bring your return. |
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| 6:21 And the day soon cometh that your mortal must put on immortality, and these bodies which are now moldering
in corruption must soon become incorruptible bodies; and then
ye must stand before the judgment-seat of Christ to be judged
according to your works and if it so be that ye are righteous, then are ye blessed with your fathers who have gone before
you. |
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
-- 1 Cor.15:53
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ. -- 2 Cor.5:10
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| 6:22 O that ye had repented before this great destruction had come upon you. But behold, ye are gone, and
the Father, yea, the Eternal Father of heaven, knoweth your state; and he doeth with you according to his justice and
mercy. |
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