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Chapter 7 is a sermon that Mormon gave to the Nephites. This sermon focuses on the essence of good and evil. Mormon finishes by talking about miracles, faith, hope, and charity. Chapters 8 and 9 contain two epistles to Moroni from his father, Mormon.
Upon the Nephites' defeat at Cumorah, Moroni goes into hiding to avoid being killed by the Lamanites. Instructed by his father to complete the Nephite record, which Mormon had abridged from previous records, Moroni narrates chapters 8 and 9 of Mormon's record in the larger Book of Mormon, the Book of Moroni, and the Book of Ether.
Smith said that after translating the Book of Mormon, he returned the plates and the Urim and Thummim to the angel, whom he identified as the resurrected Moroni. Smith reportedly told Orson Pratt that the Lord gave him the Urim and Thummim when he was an inexperienced translator but that as he grew in experience, he no longer needed such ...
This "inner" book has nine chapters. According to the text, the first seven chapters were abridged by the prophet Mormon and the last two by his son Moroni. The book thus explains the claimed provenance of the Book of Mormon as an ancient record, mostly of the Nephites, compiled by Mormon and Moroni on golden plates.
Between AD 401 and 421: Moroni 2 finishes his father's work ; abridges the book of Ether, the record of the Jaredites; and finishes with his own book, including the church ordinances (Moroni 2–6) and some of his father's teachings and writings (Moroni 7, 8, 9). About AD 421: Moroni finishes the work his father and ancestors started, leaving a ...
The Book of Alma is the longest of all the books of the Book of Mormon, consisting of 63 chapters. The book records the first 39 years of what the Nephites termed "the reign of the judges", a period in which the Nephite nation adopted a constitutional theocratic government in which the judicial and executive branches of the government were combined.
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In Smith's account, Moroni allowed him, accompanied by his wife Emma Hale Smith, to take the plates on September 22, 1827, four years after his initial visit to the hill, and directed him to translate them into English. [23] [24] Smith said the angel Moroni strictly instructed him to not let anyone else see the plates without divine permission ...