TRIV0 Why did the Anti-Nephi-Lehies bury their swords in the ground?

They [the Lamanites] had their heads shaved that they were naked; and they were girded with a leathern girdle about their loins. Mosiah 10:8

Trivia: What Book of Mormon character had a shining face like Moses's on Mount Sinai?

Why did the Anti-Nephi-Lehies bury their swords in the ground?


So they could be washed bright through the blood of the Son of God.

If we [the Anti-Nephi-Lehies] should stain our swords again they can no more be washed bright through the blood of the Son of our great God. Alma 24:13
(This occurred, according the LDS footnote for this chapter, somewhere between 77 and 90 BCE.

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