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

Thou shalt give heed unto all his words and commandments ... his word ye shall receive, as if from mine own mouth. Doctrine & Covenants 21:4

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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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