Ether: Selected Verses

1. There arose a rebellion among the people, because of that secret combination.   9:35
2. There was no water that could hurt them, their vessels being tight like unto a dish.   9:35
3. The sons and the daughters of the brother of Jared were twenty and two souls.   9:35
4. Orihah ... begat thirty and one, among whom were twenty and three sons.   9:35
5. They formed a secret combinationb... which combination is most abominable and wicked above all, in the sight of God.   9:35
6. For the Lord worketh not in secret combinations.   9:35
7. Whatsoever nation shall uphold such secret combinations ... behold, they shall be destroyed.   9:35
8. Ye shall awake to a sense of your awful situation, because of this secret combination.   9:35
9. The Lord warned Omer in a dream.   9:35
10. Emer ... even saw the Son of Righteousness.   9:35
11. There came forth poisonous serpents also upon the face of the land, and did poison many people.   9:35
12. The people ... did devour the carcasses of them which fell by the way, until they had devoured them all.   9:35
13. Because of their wicked combinations ... there began to be wars ... famines and pestilences ... a great destruction, such ... as never had been known upon the face of the earth.   9:35
14. Moron did that which was wicked before the Lord.   9:35
15. The Lord caused stones to shine in darkness.   9:35
16. The three disciples obtained a promise that they should not taste of death.   9:35
17. When God put forth his finger he could not hide it from the sight of the brother of Jared.   9:35
18. The Gentiles will mock at these things, because of our weakness in writing.   9:35
19. The Lord spake unto me, saying: Fools mock, but they shall mourn.   9:35
20. The brother of Jared said unto the mountain Zerin, Remove .   9:35
21. My garments are not spotted with your blood.   9:35
22. In fine, there were none of the fair sons and daughters upon the face of the whole earth who repented of their sins.   9:35
23. In the first year that Ether dwelt in the cavity of a rock, there were many people who were slain by the sword of those secret combinations.   9:35
24. Gilead ... received great strength to his army, because of secret combinations.   9:35
25. One of the secret combinations murdered him in a secret pass.   9:35
26. There had been slain two millions of mighty men, and also their wives and their children.   9:35
27. The waters of Ripliancum, which, by interpretation, is large.   9:35
28. The Spirit of the Lord had ceased striving with them, and Satan had full power over the hearts of the people.   9:35
29. These stones shall magnify to the eyes of men these things which ye shall write.   9:35
30. Coriantor was the son of Moron.   9:35
31. The Lord ... said unto him [the brother of Jared] ... there shall be none greater than the nation which I will raise up unto me of thy seed, upon all the face of the earth.   9:35
32. The Lord came down and talked with the brother of Jared; and he was in a cloud, and the brother of Jared saw him not.   9:35
33. The Lord did go before them, and did talk with them as he stood in a cloud, and gave directions whither they should travel.   9:35
34. The Lord came again unto the brother of Jared, and stood in a cloud and talked with him.   9:35
35. For the space of three hours did the Lord talk with the brother of Jared, and chastened him because he remembered not to call upon the name of the Lord.   9:35
36. And they were built after a manner that they were exceedingly tight, even that they would hold water like unto a dish; and the bottom thereof was tight like unto a dish; and the sides thereof were tight like unto a dish ... and the top thereof was tight like unto a dish; and the length thereof was the length of a tree; and the door thereof, when it was shut, was tight like unto a dish.   9:35
37. Touch these stones, O Lord, with thy finger.   9:35
38. The Lord stretched forth his hand and touched the stones one by one with his finger.   9:35
39. I saw the finger of the Lord, and I feared lest he should smite me.   9:35
40. Never has man come before me with such exceeding faith as thou hast; for were it not so ye could not have seen my finger.   9:35
41. Behold, I am Jesus Christ.   9:35
42. Ye shall write them and shall seal them up, that no one can interpret them; for ye shall write them in a language that they cannot be read.   9:35
43. And now I, Moroni, proceed to give an account of those ancient inhabitants who were destroyed by the hand of the Lord upon the face of this north country.   9:35
44. He [Jesus] showed unto the brother of Jared all the inhabitants of the earth which had been, and also all that would be.   9:35
45. After ... they have all dwindled in unbelief ... I am commanded that I should hide them up again in the earth.   9:35
46. Behold, I have written upon these plates the very things which the brother of Jared saw.   9:35
47. I have sealed up the interpreters, according to the commandment of the Lord.   9:35
48. Then will I [Jesus] manifest unto them the things which the brother of Jared saw.   9:35
49. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Father of the heavens and of the earth.   9:35
50. He that will contend against the word of the Lord, let him be accursed; and he that shall deny these things, let him be accursed.   9:35
51. At my [Jesus's] command the heavens are opened and are shut; and at my word the earth shall shake.   9:35
52. At my [Jesus's] command the inhabitants thereof shall pass away, even so as by fire.   9:35
53. For behold, I am the Father.   9:35
54. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.   9:35
55. I, Moroni, have written the words which were commanded me, according to my memory ... the things which I have sealed up; therefore touch them not in order that ye may translate; for that thing is forbidden you.   9:35