I command mine handmaid, Emma Smith, to abide and cleave unto my servant Joseph, and to none else. But if she will not abide this commandment she shall be destroyed, saith the Lord; for I am the Lord thy God, and will destroy her if she abide not in my law. Doctrine & Covenants 132:54

Trivia: Who did Jesus command to pay for the printing of the Book of Mormon?

Why did the Nephites hate the Lamanites?


Because they were filthy and dark-skinned (after God cursed them).

The Lamanites your brethren, whom ye hate because of their filthiness and the cursing which hath come upon their skins. Jacob 3:5

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