1 Nephi 5:224 And that the things which were written should be kept for the
instruction of my people which should possess the land, And also for other wise purposes, which purposes are known unto the Lord.
Alma 21:121 Now these dissenters having the same
instruction and the same information of the Nephites, Yea, having been instructed in the same knowledge of the Lord, Nevertheless, it is strange to relate, not long after their dissensions, They became more hardened and impenitent and more wild, wicked and ferocious than the Lamanites -
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