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Jacob 2 -
.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; [Between
544 and 421 B.C] 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 th 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 strictnes of the word of God,
which cometh down against you, many hearts died, pierced with deep wounds.
CHAPTER 3
The puer in heart receive the pleasing word of God- Lamanite righteousness exceeds that of Nephites- Jacob
warns against fornication, lasciviousness, and every sin.
but behold, I , Jacob, would speak unto you that are pure in heart. Look unto God with firmnes 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, forever.
3 but, wo, wo unto you that are not pur in heart, that are filthy this day befor Go; 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 cursing 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 father- that they should have save it were one 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 darknes of their kins, neither shall ye revile against them because of their filthines; but ye shall
remember your own filthiness, and remember that their filthines 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 words, arouse th faculties of your souls; 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 moer things unto the peple 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 begn 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
All the prophets worshipped the FAther in the name of Christ - Abraham's offering of Isaac was in similitude of
God and his Only Begotten- Men should reconcile themselves to God through the atonement- The Jews shall
reject the foundation stone.
Now behold, it came to pass that I, Jacob, having ministered much unto my people i word, (and i cannot write
but a little of my words, because of the difficulty of engraving our words upon plates) and we know tht the
things which we write upon plates must remain.
2 but whatsoever things we write upon anything save it be upon plates must perish and vanish away; but we
can write a fwe words upon plates, which 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 knw 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 belieed in Christ and worshipped the Father in his nam, 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 righteousnes, 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 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 showeth 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 thing.
8 Behold, great and marvelous are the works of teh 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 opwer of his word man came upon the face of the earth....
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