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

It shall be called the New Jerusalem ... the glory of the Lord shall be there, and the terror of the Lord also shall be there ... and it shall be called Zion. Doctrine & Covenants 45:66

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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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