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Helaman 7–12 — Remember the Lord

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Come, Follow Me — September 2–8, 2024

Official lesson: “Remember the Lord.” — Helaman 7–12. The manual frames Nephi’s preaching, prayer, prophecy, miracles, and request for famine as one sustained effort to help a forgetful people turn again to God.1

← Previous: Helaman 1–6 — The Rock of Our Redeemer | Next: Helaman 13–16 — Glad Tidings of Great Joy →

Helaman 7–12 — “Remember the Lord”

Key Verse

“O, how could you have forgotten your God in the very day that he has delivered you?” — Helaman 7:20

Why These Six Chapters Belong Together

Nephi comes home from a rejected mission and discovers that home has become mission territory. Secret combinations occupy judgment seats. Justice is sold. The righteous are condemned because they are righteous, while the guilty purchase impunity. Nephi climbs his garden tower to pray, mourns aloud, draws a crowd, exposes the murder of the chief judge, survives accusations of conspiracy, receives divine power while pondering alone, turns immediately back toward the people who rejected him, petitions for famine rather than civil slaughter, petitions again for rain when the people repent, and watches prosperity begin the cycle again.

Then Mormon stops narrating and interprets the pattern. His question is not merely, Why do civilizations collapse? It is more personal: Why are human hearts so unsteady that relief can erase the memory of the One who gave it?

The unit moves through four kinds of memory:

  1. Inherited memory: Nephi remembers his namesake and wishes he had lived in earlier days.
  2. Prophetic memory: Nephi calls the people back to Moses, Abraham, Zenos, Zenock, Ezias, Isaiah, Jeremiah, the exodus, the brazen serpent, and the promised Christ.
  3. Covenant memory: suffering finally prompts the people to remember the Lord, repent, and ask Nephi to open heaven.
  4. Sacramental memory: Mormon’s warning reaches every disciple who promises to “always remember” Jesus Christ and then enters another week full of ease, fear, work, wealth, distraction, and choice.

The governing thesis of Helaman 7–12 is:

To remember the Lord is not merely to recall that God exists. It is to let His past deliverance, present word, promised Christ, and covenant claim govern today’s desires. Prophets call that memory into the open; pondering makes room to receive it; repentance turns it into movement; and Jesus Christ makes return possible even after forgetfulness has become habitual.

What to Watch for While Reading

  • Track every form of remember and forget. Ask what the people forget first: God’s identity, His gifts, His warnings, or their dependence.
  • Notice the movement from “I could have” to “these are my days” in Helaman 7:7–9. Nephi’s lament does not end in nostalgia; it locates his stewardship.
  • Watch what corrupted power does: condemn the righteous, acquit the guilty for money, hold office to get gain, conceal murder, and accuse the truth-teller.
  • List what prophets do in chapters 7–11: grieve, pray, expose, warn, testify of Christ, predict, discern, ponder, receive, obey, intercede, and return.
  • Compare the crowd’s reactions to the same sign. Five men run to test Nephi’s word; judges manipulate the evidence; some believe Nephi; some call him a god; others still doubt.
  • Mark Nephi’s movement in chapter 10: departing → pondering → hearing → stopping → turning → returning. Revelation interrupts his route.
  • Notice why the Lord can trust Nephi with extraordinary power: “thou shalt not ask that which is contrary to my will” (Helaman 10:5).
  • Read the famine with moral care. The text presents a specific prophetic act in an already violent society—not a general permission to pray suffering upon opponents.
  • In chapter 11, count how quickly remembered humility becomes forgotten dependence after rain and prosperity return.
  • In chapter 12, ask why Mormon compares people with dust. His point is not that human beings lack divine worth; it is that creation responds to God while moral agents can refuse.
  • Do not turn Helaman 12:15 into a science proof-text. The surrounding argument concerns creation moving at God’s word and humans refusing to move.2
  • Listen for Christ throughout Nephi’s sermon. The prophetic line converges not on Nephi’s impressive power but on the Son of God who was lifted up and will redeem those who look.

Historical and Literary Context

Home Has Become the Hardest Field

The previous guide, Helaman 1–6 — The Rock of Our Redeemer, ends with a reversal: converted Lamanites become firm in faith while many Nephites yield their hearts to Gadianton corruption. Nephi has already left the judgment seat because law cannot heal a people determined to choose injustice. He and Lehi preach successfully among the Lamanites and then travel north. Helaman 7 begins when Nephi returns after the people in the north reject his message.

The political crisis is therefore not new. Chapter 7 reveals its mature form. The robbers no longer lurk only outside government. They fill judgment seats, possess power, use money to protect guilt, and exploit office for gain. Mormon is describing institutional corruption and moral desire together: rulers protect the system, but a society that loves gain supplies its recruits and tolerates its methods.

Rough Chronology

Approximate pointNarrative developmentSpiritual movement
69th year of the judgesNephi returns to Zarahemla and prays on his towergrief becomes public prophetic witness
same crisisSeezoram is murdered; Nephi identifies Seantuma sign exposes hearts rather than automatically converting them
afterwardNephi ponders and receives sealing powersurrender to God’s will becomes divine trust
72nd–73rd yearscontention becomes civil warwickedness begins consuming itself
73rd–75th yearsfamine replaces war; people repentaffliction awakens memory
76th yearrain returns; Church expands; peace resumesremembered dependence bears fruit
80th–85th yearsprosperity, pride, dissension, and robbers returnease weakens memory again
editorial pauseMormon interprets the cyclethe reader is summoned to steadiness

Six Chapters, Four Movements

MovementChaptersCentral question
A prophet mourns a living society7–8Will anyone recognize covenant death before physical destruction arrives?
A sign discloses competing hearts9What does evidence do when people want different conclusions?
God entrusts power to yielded will10What kind of person can be trusted not to use heaven’s power for self?
Famine, rain, prosperity, and editorial warning11–12How can remembered dependence become durable rather than crisis-bound?

Nephi’s Garden, Tower, Highway, and Market

Helaman 7:10 places Nephi’s tower in his garden “by the highway which led to the chief market.” That explains how private mourning quickly becomes public: people passing a major route see him, tell others, and a multitude gathers.

The BYU Studies index points to two scholarly proposals. Wallace Hunt and John Sorenson emphasize the marketplace setting. John W. Welch proposes that Nephi’s prolonged mourning may have looked like a recognizable funeral lament, perhaps an enacted sermon mourning the covenant death of the people. The eventual announcement of a murdered chief judge would then make the symbol terribly literal. The proposal is vivid and coherent, but the text never labels the scene a funeral rite and does not identify the tower as a burial monument. It should be taught as Welch’s possibility, not recovered fact.34

Mormon Is Not a Neutral Camera

Chapter 12 is Mormon’s editorial voice. Thomas MacKay describes Mormon as a prophet-historian who selects events according to a providential moral vision: prophecy is fulfilled, covenant choices have consequences, and material success is less important than righteousness. MacKay also offers a necessary caution. Prosperity is not a simple righteousness meter. Blessings and consequences may arrive after a time lag, and worldly success can coexist with profound wickedness.5

That warning prevents a cruel misreading. Helaman 12 does not authorize us to assume that every suffering person forgot God or every prosperous person pleased Him. Mormon is interpreting this particular people’s narrated covenant cycle. The discipleship question is inward: When I receive relief or abundance, what happens to my remembrance, generosity, and willingness to be guided?

The Anatomy of Forgetting

The official manual says forgetting God can be an even bigger problem than not knowing Him.1 That is possible because scriptural “remembering” is active covenant loyalty, not mere mental storage. The Nephites know religious vocabulary. They have records, prophets, and recent miracles. Their problem is that remembered facts no longer govern present love.

StageHelaman evidenceWhat has been forgotten
gift becomes entitlementriches, ease, and prosperitythe Giver
entitlement becomes rankingseeking praise and being lifted above anotherequal dependence before God
ranking becomes exploitationturning backs on the poor and meekcovenant kinship
exploitation requires concealmentsecret works and protected guilttruth and accountability
warning becomes offensiveanger against Nephithe mercy inside correction
sign becomes ammunitionjudges manipulate the murder investigationevidence as a call to repent
pain becomes the only interruptionwar and famine finally awaken the peoplevoluntary humility
relief becomes amnesiarain and prosperity precede renewed pridethe lesson suffering appeared to teach

Professor Shima Baughman, speaking as a criminal-law scholar on followHIM, highlights gain, praise, and pride in Helaman 7:21–26 as roots of the narrated crime. She also complicates a simplistic “bad people” explanation with her experience of desperate poverty: exploitation by the rich and survival crime among the hungry both disclose an anti-Zion society. The text’s moral indictment therefore reaches both individual acts and social arrangements that turn away from the poor.6

This does not mean conversion eliminates the need for laws, evidence, protection, treatment, or careful public policy. Helaman itself shows judges, investigations, witnesses, physical evidence, and real victims. It means policy cannot substitute for changed desire. A society is not Zion when law merely manages the consequences of hearts set on gain.

“These Are My Days”: Faithful Agency after Nostalgia

Nephi begins with three aching wishes:

“O, that I could have had my days in the days when my father Nephi first came out of the land of Jerusalem.”

He imagines those people as firm, quick to hearken, and easy to entreat. The memory is selective; the first Nephi also lived through attempted murder, family rupture, rebellion, and the final separation of peoples. Yet lament is not condemned. Nephi is naming grief before God.

The hinge is Helaman 7:9:

“But behold, I am consigned that these are my days.”

“Consigned” is not cheerful resignation. It accepts placement and stewardship. Jared Halverson contrasts the could-haves and would-haves with the do-haves: Nephi cannot choose his historical moment, but he can choose faithfulness within it. Don’t Miss This similarly treats “these are my days” as a call like Esther’s—to rise within the time actually given.78

Teaching Illustration — The Inherited Worksite

Imagine arriving at a worksite where previous crews left beautiful plans but also corroded pipes, mislabeled wires, and a flooded basement. Wishing for the original construction day may be understandable. It will not stop the leak.

“These are my days” means:

  • I inherit gifts I did not create;
  • I inherit damage I did not personally choose;
  • I refuse both nostalgic fantasy and cynical surrender;
  • I ask what covenant faithfulness requires at the actual point where I entered the story.

Come, Follow Me connection: What part of life am I postponing until family, Church, country, health, or culture feels like a better era? What faithful action belongs to these days?

What Prophets Do—and What They Cannot Do for Us

The official manual invites readers to build a definition of a prophet from chapters 7–11.1 Nephi’s ministry gives a broad portrait:

Prophetic actionTextPurpose
mourn before God7:6–11refuse numbness toward covenant harm
cry repentance7:13–29name sin, consequence, and the open route home
testify from scripture8:11–24place present warning inside God’s long witness of Christ
reveal hidden crime8:27–9:36expose corruption and vindicate divine knowledge
withstand manipulation8:1–10; 9:16–38refuse to let powerful accusers define truth
ponder10:1–3carry the word into reflective communion with God
seek God’s will above life10:4–5become trustworthy rather than self-protective
receive keys and commission10:6–10act with authorized divine power
obey promptly10:11–12turn back before reaching home
preach despite rejection10:12–19continue after the dramatic sign fades
intercede in judgment11:3–17seek repentance, preservation, and restored rain

But the same chapters show what a prophet cannot do:

  • Nephi cannot force corrupt judges to love justice.
  • He cannot make signs produce humility.
  • He cannot do the five men’s believing for them.
  • He cannot preserve memory without the people’s repeated consent.
  • He cannot turn priesthood power into coercive control over hearts.

Prophetic boldness and human agency remain together. Nephi reveals God’s will; hearers decide whether correction becomes repentance, anger, curiosity, or another accusation.

Signs Reveal Hearts; They Do Not Replace Conversion

The murder prophecy is spectacular. Nephi names the crime before public confirmation, identifies the murderer, predicts where blood will be found, and predicts Seantum’s confession. Yet the result is division rather than automatic conversion.

GroupResponseWhat the sign discloses
five investigatorsrun to verify, faint at fulfillment, are imprisoned, later testifywillingness can grow through honest encounter
corrupt judgesaccuse the five, then accuse Nephi of conspiracyevidence can be bent to preserve threatened power
some hearersbelieve Nephi is a prophetsigns can confirm a heart willing to receive testimony
otherscall Nephi a godastonishment can overshoot truth into another error
remaining dissenterscontinue disputingfactual surprise does not surrender the will

The manual’s conclusion is explicit: faith in Jesus Christ must be built on more than signs and miracles.1 This does not make signs useless. In Helaman 9 they free falsely accused men, expose a murderer, and confirm Nephi’s prophetic witness. The issue is asking evidence to perform a work only covenant surrender can do.

Don’t Miss This notices that the five men later convert others through testimony gained during imprisonment. People who began as investigators become witnesses. Their authority is not institutional prestige; it is truthful encounter and a changed life.8

Teaching Illustration — The Fire Alarm and the Exit

A fire alarm can reveal danger. It cannot walk anyone outside. One person hears and leaves; another searches for smoke; another disables the noise; another argues about who installed the detector.

A sign is alarm, evidence, and invitation. Conversion is the movement of trust and repentance toward Christ.

Pondering: The Space between Event and Obedience

After the crowd disperses, Nephi walks home “pondering upon the things which the Lord had shown unto him.” He is also “much cast down” because of the people’s wickedness. Revelation comes not because sadness is spiritually superior, but because Nephi carries his experience toward God rather than numbing it or converting it into resentment.

The manual quotes President Henry B. Eyring: “When we ponder, we invite revelation by the Spirit.”1 Pondering in this scene is not passive daydreaming. It includes:

  1. remembering what God has shown;
  2. holding grief without pretending it is small;
  3. allowing events to be interpreted by revelation rather than ego;
  4. remaining interruptible;
  5. obeying what comes next.

The narrative’s verbs make the test concrete. Nephi is going home. A voice stops him. He turns. He returns. The validity of pondering appears in redirected feet.

A Five-Minute Pondering Practice

  • One fact: What actually happened?
  • One feeling: What am I carrying before God?
  • One remembered word: Which scripture or prophetic teaching interprets this?
  • One question: “Lord, what would Thou have me do?”
  • One movement: What will I stop, turn from, return to, or begin?

This practice does not guarantee a voice like Nephi’s. It creates honest attention in which ordinary promptings are less likely to be crowded out.

“Thou Shalt Not Ask Contrary to My Will”: Power as Aligned Trust

The Lord praises Nephi for unwearying declaration, courage, disregard for self-preservation, and pursuit of divine will. Then comes the reason Nephi’s word can be honored:

“All things shall be done unto thee according to thy word, for thou shalt not ask that which is contrary to my will.”

This is not a blank check handed to a powerful personality. It is a description of converged wills. Nephi’s authority grows as self-serving use becomes unthinkable. Jared Halverson puts it memorably: God can trust Nephi because Nephi completely trusts God. Andrew Skinner reads Helaman 10 as Nephi’s ultimate encounter with Deity and emphasizes the eternal blessing, direct divine identification, and sealing commission. Skinner’s further connection to calling and election is a Latter-day Saint scholarly-theological interpretation; the narrative itself unmistakably emphasizes tested fidelity and alignment.79

The power to seal and loose parallels language given to Peter in Matthew 16:16–19. Nephi receives power “among” the people—not permission to use sacred authority for personal dominance.

Unwearying Is Not Unfeeling

Nephi is cast down. He has been rejected, threatened, and left alone. “Unwearyingness” therefore cannot mean never experiencing fatigue or sorrow. Halverson cautions against toxic perfectionism: courage is not the absence of fear, and unwearying service does not forbid needed rest. It means weariness does not become the final lord of one’s covenant direction.7

A Local Teaching Story — Marion G. Romney and Ida

A retained source in Ben’s vault recounts Marion G. Romney reading Helaman 10:4–5 during his wife Ida’s grave illness. The phrase “thou shalt not ask that which is contrary to my will” gave him peace and shaped a prayer of surrender before he felt assurance to bless her. The story’s strength is not a formula guaranteeing healing. It shows the sequence seek God’s will → yield one’s own fear → act on received assurance.10

The Famine: Severe Mercy without Easy Answers

Civil conflict escalates until Nephi fears the people will destroy one another. He asks that famine replace the sword so the people might remember God. The heavens close; hunger spreads; people perish; the people remember; leaders ask Nephi to intercede; Nephi sees repentance and asks for rain.

Several truths must be held together:

  1. The text presents the famine as a specific exercise of divinely granted sealing power. It is not private revenge.
  2. Nephi’s stated purpose is preservation from escalating civil slaughter and movement toward repentance.
  3. The suffering is real. Scripture does not require us to describe hunger or death casually because the narrative has a redemptive outcome.
  4. Nephi remains intercessor. He does not delight in pain; he watches for repentance and promptly petitions for relief.
  5. This is not a universal explanation for famine. Modern hunger can arise from drought, war, displacement, policy, exploitation, poverty, and many interacting causes. Helaman 11 does not authorize blaming hungry people for hidden sin.
  6. The long-term moral result remains fragile. Crisis produces remembrance, but prosperity later exposes that memory has not yet become steady character.

The episode resembles Elijah’s drought and sealing declaration in 1 Kings 17:1, but Nephi’s narrative repeatedly foregrounds intercession. Divine correction aims at return, not pain as an end.

Teaching Illustration — The Emergency Brake

An emergency brake is violent relative to smooth travel. It can prevent a worse collision, but no one should celebrate the strain as though damage were pleasant. Nephi sees a society accelerating toward mutual slaughter and asks God for an interruption severe enough to make another choice imaginable.

The discipleship application is not “pray for disasters.” It is: What earlier, gentler correction am I refusing that could keep crisis from becoming my only teacher?

Mormon’s “Less Than the Dust” Is about Responsiveness, Not Worth

Helaman 12:7 can wound if detached from its argument:

“O how great is the nothingness of the children of men; yea, even they are less than the dust of the earth.”

Mormon is not denying that human beings are children of God, bear divine image, or are worth the blood of Christ. The next verses explain the comparison. Dust, hills, mountains, earth, waters, and the elements move at God’s command. Humans, endowed with moral agency, often “will not that he should be their guide.” We are “less” in responsiveness when creation obeys and we refuse.

David Grandy argues that the interpretive center of Helaman 12:13–15 is not a claim that Nephites had developed modern heliocentrism. Mormon asks why things move: creation responds to God’s word, while humans resist. The passage belongs to theological poetry and scriptural cosmology before it belongs to modern astronomy.2

Dust and Dignity

Two scriptural truths belong together:

  • Humility: we are dependent creatures made from dust; unaided self-sufficiency is illusion.
  • Dignity: God gives life, agency, covenant, resurrection, and the invitation to become like Him through Jesus Christ.

Humility without dignity becomes self-contempt. Dignity without humility becomes self-worship. Mormon uses dust to break rebellion, not to erase beloved identity.

Verse-by-Verse Commentary

Helaman 7 — A Prophet Comes Home to Mourn

Helaman 7:1–5 — The Judgment Seats Are Occupied

“Seeing the people in a state of such awful wickedness.”

Nephi returns from an unsuccessful mission northward and finds Gadianton robbers filling the judgment seats. They usurp God’s commandments, condemn the righteous, allow the guilty to go unpunished because of money, and seek office for gain and glory.

The corruption is legal, economic, and spiritual at once. The judges possess office without justice. Wealth becomes insulation from accountability. Public power becomes a private revenue stream.

followHIM’s crime discussion highlights gain, praise, and pride, while its anti-Zion framing asks who bears the cost when some have excess and others are abandoned.6

Come, Follow Me connection: A discipleship audit of power asks not only whether rules exist, but whom enforcement protects, whose harm is ignored, and whether money changes moral standards.

Helaman 7:6–9 — Lament, Nostalgia, and “These Are My Days”

“But behold, I am consigned that these are my days.”

Nephi wishes for the age of his first namesake. His memory idealizes the past, yet his prayer eventually accepts the present. Lament becomes vocation when “I wish I lived then” changes to “I am responsible now.”

The devotional readings of Unshaken and Don’t Miss This are especially useful here: inherited days are not chosen, but consecrated action within them is.78

Come, Follow Me connection: Bring historical grief to God, but do not use an imagined golden age to abandon current stewardship.

Helaman 7:10–16 — Private Prayer Becomes Public Witness

“Because of my mourning and lamentation ye have gathered yourselves together.”

Nephi prays on a garden tower beside a highway to the chief market. Passersby see his grief; people summon others; a crowd gathers. He looks up and asks why they have come.

Welch’s proposed funeral-sermon reading gives the scene visual force: perhaps the crowd recognizes ritualized mourning and wonders who has died. Nephi’s answer is, in effect, your society is dying. Again, this is an attributed scholarly possibility, not an explicit narrative label.4

Come, Follow Me connection: Prophetic grief is not performance for attention. It is love refusing to call covenant death normal.

Helaman 7:17–29 — Turn, Remember, and Do Not Confuse Prosperity with Safety

“Turn ye, turn ye unto the Lord your God.”

Nephi announces both route and consequence. The people have forgotten God “in the very day” of deliverance, set hearts on riches, sought praise, and failed to remember the Lord. Unless they repent, enemies will take their cities and lands.

He says conditions will be better for Lamanites than for unrepentant Nephites. Covenant heritage intensifies responsibility; it does not guarantee superiority. God is no respecter of inherited group status.

Nephi closes by identifying the source of his knowledge: the Lord has shown these things. His boldness is accountable witness, not personal infallibility claimed apart from revelation.

Come, Follow Me connection: Repentance is not vague shame. It is a turn in loyalty—from gain and praise toward the God already acting to deliver.

Helaman 8 — The Prophetic Record Converges on Christ

Helaman 8:1–10 — Powerful Men Try to Control the Crowd

“Why do ye not seize upon this man and bring him forth, that he may be condemned?”

Corrupt judges recognize that Nephi has spoken “plainly” about their secret works. They accuse him of reviling both people and law, but hesitate to seize him because they fear the crowd. Some hearers defend Nephi as a good man and fear that his predicted judgments will come.

The judges’ strategy is indirect: stir the crowd, redefine exposure as social harm, and make the whistleblower the problem. Yet ordinary people still possess agency to interrupt manipulation.

Come, Follow Me connection: When someone exposes wrongdoing, ask whether anger answers the evidence or merely protects threatened identity and power.

Helaman 8:11–15 — Moses, the Sea, and the Brazen Serpent

“As many as should look upon that serpent should live.”

Nephi answers skepticism by recalling Moses. God empowered one man to part the Red Sea; He also commanded Moses to lift the brazen serpent so poisoned Israelites could look and live. Nephi interprets the sign Christologically: just as healing came by looking, eternal life comes by looking with faith to the Son of God.

The comparison preserves both simplicity and seriousness. Looking was simple but not trivial; it required trust strong enough to act. Christ’s saving power is not earned by the motion of an eye. The look embodies reliance on the remedy God provides.

See Numbers 21:4–9 and Alma 33:19–22.

Come, Follow Me connection: What divinely provided remedy feels too simple to receive—prayer, confession, sacrament, scripture, counsel, treatment, apology—because pride wants a cure on different terms?

Helaman 8:16–24 — A Cloud of Witnesses Testifies of Christ

“And behold, he is God, and he is with them.”

Nephi names Abraham, Zenos, Zenock, Ezias, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lehi, and Nephi. The record is not a random list of impressive ancestors. It is cumulative testimony that Christ will come, redemption is in Him, and fulfilled prophecy makes present dismissal morally serious.

Matthew Bowen reads Helaman 8:21–23 against Isaiah’s Immanuel theme. The people of Zarahemla can see descendants of Zedekiah “with us,” evidence that Jeremiah’s warning about Jerusalem was fulfilled; Nephi then says Christ “is God” and “is with” the fathers who testified. Bowen argues that divine preservation and presence converge in Jesus, the ultimate “God with us.” This linguistic-thematic reading is scholarship, but it illuminates Nephi’s Christ-centered logic.11

Come, Follow Me connection: Prophets do not form a trail of footprints ending at themselves. Their united direction is toward the Redeemer.

Helaman 8:25–28 — Prophecy Becomes Immediate and Falsifiable

“Your judge is murdered, and he lieth in his blood.”

Nephi moves from ancient fulfilled prophecy to an event occurring within the city. Seezoram has been murdered by a brother in the secret band. The announcement is specific enough to investigate.

The sign does not make Christ incidental. Its purpose is to establish that God reveals truth and that Nephi’s larger warning—including Christ’s coming and the need to repent—deserves attention.

Come, Follow Me connection: Spiritual claims need not fear honest examination, but evidence must remain ordered toward repentance rather than spectacle.

Helaman 9 — A Murder Investigation Becomes a Test of Desire

Helaman 9:1–9 — Five Men Run to Know

“Behold, now we will know of a surety whether this man be a prophet.”

Five men reach the judgment seat, discover Seezoram dead, and fall to the earth. Servants find them and assume guilt. The investigators become prisoners because they arrive before anyone else.

Their initial motivation is conditional belief: if the sign is true, then the other words are true. That is not yet mature faith, but it is honest enough to move toward evidence. Their willingness becomes the beginning of witness.

Come, Follow Me connection: Questions can move toward truth or become shelters from commitment. What action would make my question honest?

Helaman 9:10–20 — The Innocent Are Accused; the Prophet Is Framed

“These five are they who have murdered the judge.”

At the burial, people remember Nephi’s prophecy and realize the imprisoned men were those sent to investigate. The five are released and testify. The secret-band judges then suggest Nephi arranged the murder so he could predict it.

A threatened system can absorb contrary evidence by inventing a larger conspiracy. The judges’ accusation is not impossible merely because it is cynical; Nephi must answer it. The narrative proceeds to additional evidence rather than demanding belief through outrage.

Come, Follow Me connection: Discernment rejects both gullibility and reflexive suspicion. Ask what evidence would genuinely change the conclusion.

Helaman 9:21–38 — Seantum, Blood Evidence, and Confession

“Then shall he confess unto you, and deny no more that he has done this murder.”

Nephi names Seantum, predicts his denial, directs investigators to inspect his cloak for blood, and predicts a confession. The sequence unfolds as stated. Nephi denies conspiratorial knowledge and attributes revelation to God.

Scripture Central compares the case with Achan in Joshua 7 and proposes a legal explanation for conviction despite the usual two-witness requirement: spontaneous out-of-court confession, physical evidence, and manifest divine disclosure together may have satisfied an exception. That reconstruction is plausible scholarship, not a complete law code supplied by Helaman.12

The story should not be used to weaken modern due process or treat a claimed revelation as sufficient criminal evidence. Within the narrative, revelation is accompanied by independently discoverable physical evidence and confession.

Come, Follow Me connection: Truth seeks disclosure, corroboration, confession, protection of the falsely accused, and accountability for the actual wrongdoer.

Helaman 9:39–41 — Prophet, God, or Still Unpersuaded

“Some said that he was a prophet. And others said: Behold, he is a god.”

The five men’s prison testimony converts some. Others identify Nephi correctly as a prophet; some exaggerate and call him divine. The same event produces faithful recognition, theological distortion, and continued division.

Come, Follow Me connection: A strong spiritual experience still requires doctrinal interpretation. Wonder should deepen worship of God rather than inflate His servant.

Helaman 10 — Pondering, Trust, and Immediate Return

Helaman 10:1–3 — Cast Down but Still Pondering

“Nephi went his way towards his own house, pondering upon the things which the Lord had shown unto him.”

The people disperse and leave Nephi alone. Public vindication does not produce celebration. He is cast down over continuing hardness and secretly protected wickedness.

Pondering keeps sorrow relational. Nephi does not merely replay insults; he reflects on what the Lord has shown. This orientation makes grief a place where God can speak.

Come, Follow Me connection: When cast down, distinguish rumination that circles self from pondering that carries reality toward God.

Helaman 10:4–7 — God Names the Character He Can Trust

“Thou hast not sought thine own life, but hast sought my will.”

The Lord praises past action before granting expanded power. Nephi has declared the word unwearyingly, refused fear, subordinated self-preservation, and sought God’s will. The promise that his word will be fulfilled rests on the Lord’s knowledge that Nephi will not ask contrary to divine will.

Skinner emphasizes the relational identity statement: “Behold, thou art Nephi, and I am God.” Power is held inside that distinction. Nephi is known and commissioned; he is not autonomous.9

Come, Follow Me connection: The safest preparation for influence is not learning how to get one’s way. It is becoming the kind of disciple whose desires can be trusted because they are repeatedly yielded to God.

Helaman 10:7–10 — Sealing and Loosing

“Whatsoever ye shall seal on earth shall be sealed in heaven.”

Nephi receives power over elements and among the people. The verbal parallel to Peter’s keys in Matthew 16 invites a Restoration reading of authorized sealing power. Yet the chapter itself emphasizes function: Nephi may act in famine, pestilence, destruction, and preservation according to wickedness and divine commission.

This is sacred authority, not magical control. Its ethical center is verse 5: he will not ask contrary to God’s will.

Come, Follow Me connection: Authority detached from surrendered will becomes domination. In God’s order, greater power requires deeper consecration.

Helaman 10:11–12 — He Stops, Turns, and Returns

“Behold, he did stop and did not go unto his own house, but did return unto the multitudes.”

The Lord commands Nephi to warn the people. Nephi does not finish the walk home, negotiate timing, or require an apology from the crowd. He turns around.

Immediate obedience is the visible fruit of pondering. The scene is small compared with moving mountains, but it may be the chapter’s most imitable miracle: a person changes direction when God speaks.

Come, Follow Me connection: Which prompting already received requires stopped momentum rather than more analysis?

Helaman 10:13–19 — Rejection Does Not Cancel Commission

“He went forth in the Spirit, from multitude to multitude.”

Nephi preaches until people become angry and seek to imprison him. The Spirit carries him away, and he continues declaring the word throughout the land.

Miraculous preservation does not remove the assignment’s emotional cost. Nor does authority guarantee popular reception. Nephi’s unwearyingness is repeated recommitment.

Come, Follow Me connection: Measure faithfulness first by truthful obedience, not by whether hearers reward the message.

Helaman 11 — The Famine Teaches Memory, but Not Yet Steadiness

Helaman 11:1–6 — Civil War and a Petition for Famine

“Rather let there be a famine in the land, to stir them up in remembrance of the Lord their God.”

Contention becomes war and destruction by the sword. Nephi fears total self-destruction and exercises the granted sealing power. Rain stops; famine becomes severe; people begin to remember.

The narrative presents famine as an emergency intervention within covenant history. It must not become a general theology that blames victims of hunger. Nephi’s motive is to interrupt killing and awaken return.

Come, Follow Me connection: Ask for willingness to receive correction while it can still come as counsel, conscience, scripture, or loving warning.

Helaman 11:7–17 — Repentance, Intercession, and Rain

“The people did repent and humble themselves in sackcloth.”

The people sweep away the Gadianton band, confess, repent, and ask leaders to seek Nephi’s intercession. Nephi sees humility and asks the Lord to remember His covenant and turn away anger. Rain returns; fruit grows; people rejoice and recognize Nephi’s prophetic authority.

Nephi prays both for closure and opening. He is not attached to judgment as proof that he was right. The moment repentance appears, he asks for life.

Come, Follow Me connection: A true warning seeks the person’s return. If repentance would disappoint me because it removes my chance to condemn, my motive needs Christ’s correction.

Helaman 11:18–23 — Peace, Church Growth, and Lehi’s Quiet Faithfulness

“Nephi and Lehi … had many revelations daily.”

Peace returns, the Church spreads, and the people prosper. Mormon says Nephi and Lehi know many mysteries and receive daily revelation. Although Nephi dominates the narrative, Lehi remains a faithful companion in ministry.

The quiet plural matters. Scripture may narrate one person’s dramatic commission while many less-visible disciples sustain the covenant work.

Come, Follow Me connection: Do not confuse narrative visibility with divine value.

Helaman 11:24–28 — A Small Dissension Reconstitutes the Robbers

“A certain number of the dissenters … stirred up to anger.”

Dissenters enter the mountains, recruit robbers, and grow strong. The pattern recalls Helaman 6: a destructive organization returns because the desires and grievances that feed it return.

Peace has not removed agency. Institutional victory remains temporary without continued truth, justice, and converted desire.

Come, Follow Me connection: What grievance, secrecy, or appetite could rebuild a pattern I assumed was gone?

Helaman 11:29–38 — Partial Success, Pride, and Renewed Decline

“They did wax stronger and stronger in their pride.”

Armies initially fail against mountain strongholds. Later the people remember the Lord and gain some advantage, but the robbers continue. By the eighty-fifth year, pride, wickedness, and robbers again increase.

The speed is sobering. Rain, harvest, peace, and remembered deliverance do not permanently remove the need for covenant practice. Crisis memory decays when it is not translated into daily worship, just structures, generosity, and repentance.

Come, Follow Me connection: What practice carries a truth learned in crisis into ordinary Tuesday?

Helaman 12 — Mormon Addresses the Reader

Helaman 12:1–3 — Prosperity and the Unsteady Heart

“At the very time when he doth prosper his people … then is the time that they do harden their hearts.”

Mormon lists fields, flocks, herds, gold, silver, safety, softened enemies, welfare, and happiness. The tragedy is not that gifts are evil. It is that gifts become a veil over the Giver.

MacKay’s caution matters: Mormon does not teach that prosperity always proves prior righteousness or suffering always proves guilt. In this narrated cycle, ease supplies the conditions under which this people repeatedly forget.5

Come, Follow Me connection: Gratitude is not decorative politeness. It is a discipline that keeps blessing from becoming imagined independence.

Helaman 12:4–6 — Quick to Pride, Slow to Remember

“How slow are they to remember the Lord their God.”

People are quick to boast, do iniquity, and listen to the evil one; slow to remember, hearken, and walk in wisdom. They do not desire that the Creator “should rule and reign over them.”

The issue is not divine insecurity. To reject God’s guidance is to reject the order of love, truth, justice, and life for which we were created.

Come, Follow Me connection: Spiritual steadiness is less about never swaying than about shortening the delay between prompting and return.

Helaman 12:7–12 — Less Than Dust

“The dust of the earth moveth hither and thither … at the command of our great and everlasting God.”

Mormon’s comparison is functional. Dust, mountains, and the earth obey God’s voice; people refuse. Human worth remains immense precisely because God keeps calling, chastening, redeeming, and offering salvation.

Come, Follow Me connection: Let dust teach responsiveness, not self-hatred. The question is not “Am I worthless?” but “Will I move when Love commands?”

Helaman 12:13–21 — Creation Moves at God’s Word

“If he say unto the earth—Move—it is moved.”

Earth, sun, waters, mountains, cities, and treasure respond to divine word. Grandy argues that the passage is concerned with the theological why of movement, not a modern scientific model. Mormon’s contrast is creation’s responsiveness versus human refusal.2

Verses 18–21 also recall hidden treasure becoming slippery among a people who use wealth against God. Material possession cannot provide ultimate stability when covenant relationship is rejected.

Come, Follow Me connection: What in my life appears fixed but is actually contingent—and what relationship with God remains secure when possessions move?

Helaman 12:22–26 — Mormon’s Desired Ending Is Salvation

“Blessed are they who will repent and hearken unto the voice of the Lord their God.”

After severe language, Mormon states his desire: that all might be saved. He distinguishes everlasting life from everlasting condemnation and echoes John 5:28–29.

The chapter’s final emotional note is not contempt for humanity. It is urgent hope. Mormon exposes unsteadiness because repentance remains possible.

Come, Follow Me connection: The purpose of remembering judgment is to choose Christ and life now.

A Theology of Remembrance

Remembering Is Covenant Re-Presence

To remember Christ is to let His saving reality become present in decision. The sacrament prayers do not ask disciples merely to retain biographical information about Jesus. They bind remembrance to willingness, name, commandments, and Spirit (Doctrine and Covenants 20:77, 79).

Mere recallCovenant remembrance
“God helped before”therefore I trust and obey now
“Christ suffered for sin”therefore I repent and receive grace now
“the poor matter”therefore resources and attention move now
“prophets warned ancient people”therefore I examine current resistance now
“I learned this in crisis”therefore I build a practice before ease erases it

Remembrance Needs Structures

Human hearts are unsteady, so disciples use repeated, embodied reminders:

  • sacrament;
  • scripture and prayer;
  • Sabbath worship;
  • temple covenants;
  • journals and family stories;
  • gratitude and consecrated giving;
  • confession and repair;
  • names, ordinances, music, art, and sacred places;
  • service that makes Christ’s command visible in another person’s need.

These practices do not save apart from Christ. They help memory remain attached to the One who does.

Remembering Is Not Living Backward

Nephi remembers the first Nephi but must serve in his own days. Healthy memory receives identity, warning, and hope from the past without requiring the present to imitate it. Covenant remembrance makes history available for obedience now.

Teaching and Discussion Ideas

1. “These Are My Days” Timeline

Draw two columns:

  • Days I wish I had
  • Stewardship I actually have

Read Helaman 7:7–9. Let participants name—not debate—what feels difficult about their time. Then ask for one faithful action possible only because these are their days.

2. The Prophetic-Action Inventory

Assign small groups one chapter from 7–11. Ask them to list every prophetic verb. Combine the lists and build a definition of a prophet. Compare it with the official manual’s invitation and the Guide to the Scriptures.

3. One Sign, Five Responses

Write the responses from Helaman 9 on separate cards: investigate, believe, accuse, exaggerate, continue disputing. Ask what desire might produce each response. Keep the discussion self-examining rather than labeling absent people.

4. Stop, Turn, Return

Walk across the room while someone reads Helaman 10:11–12. Stop at “did stop,” turn at “did not go unto his own house,” and return at “did return unto the multitudes.” Discuss why embodied obedience can clarify a prompting that endless analysis keeps abstract.

5. The Emergency Brake

Use a picture of an emergency brake. Ask:

  • What gentler warnings preceded the famine?
  • What worse destruction was Nephi trying to interrupt?
  • Why should the story not be used to blame modern victims of famine?
  • What early correction can we receive voluntarily?

6. Balance on One Foot

Use the manual’s object lesson: try balancing on one foot while reading phrases from Helaman 12:1–6. Then identify practices that increase spiritual steadiness. Emphasize that steadiness includes quick repentance after a wobble, not flawless performance.1

7. Dust without Self-Contempt

Put soil in a clear jar. Read Helaman 12:7–12, then Moses 1:39. Ask what each text teaches about dependence, responsiveness, purpose, and worth. Refuse interpretations that turn humility into abuse or self-loathing.

8. A Remembrance Architecture

Have learners design a week with intentional anchors: sacrament, one verse, one gratitude entry, one act for the poor, one repair, one quiet pondering period. Ask how each points to Christ rather than merely improving productivity.

Personal Covenant Practice

A Seven-Day “Remember and Return” Pattern

  1. Remember deliverance: Write one specific way God, grace, another person, or truth sustained you.
  2. Name these days: Complete the sentence, “I am consigned that these are my days, therefore with Christ I can …”
  3. Look and live: Bring one sin, wound, fear, or need honestly to Jesus Christ rather than designing a substitute remedy.
  4. Ponder: Sit without input for five minutes with one verse and one question.
  5. Stop, turn, return: Act on one prompting that changes your current route.
  6. Remember the poor: Move time, food, money, advocacy, or attention toward someone vulnerable without making them an object lesson.
  7. Renew sacramental memory: Prepare to promise “always remember him” with one concrete application for the coming week.

A Steadiness Check

At week’s end ask:

  • What blessing tempted me to forget dependence?
  • What correction did I receive before crisis?
  • Where did I protect image instead of truth?
  • Did remembering Christ change any allocation of time, money, attention, or apology?
  • How quickly did I return after noticing drift?

Questions for Personal Study or a Class

  1. Why might home have been a harder mission field for Nephi than the land northward?
  2. What does institutional corruption look like in Helaman 7:4–5?
  3. What is the difference between lament and surrender?
  4. Where does Nephi’s nostalgia distort the earlier record, and why might Mormon preserve that honest prayer?
  5. What changes when Nephi says, “These are my days”?
  6. Why did the garden tower draw a crowd?
  7. What is useful about Welch’s funeral-sermon proposal, and why must it remain labeled as a proposal?
  8. How does Nephi’s sermon connect riches, praise, pride, neglect of the poor, and crime?
  9. Why does covenant heritage increase accountability rather than superiority?
  10. What do Moses and the brazen serpent teach about looking to Christ?
  11. How do Nephi’s prophetic witnesses converge on the Son of God?
  12. How does Bowen’s Immanuel reading illuminate “he is God; and he is with them”?
  13. What did the five men do with uncertainty?
  14. Why did the judges prefer a conspiracy accusation to repentance?
  15. What protects honest investigation from both gullibility and cynicism?
  16. Why did the sign convert some but not all?
  17. What is the difference between pondering and anxious rumination?
  18. Which verbs in Helaman 10:11–12 define responsive obedience?
  19. Why could the Lord trust Nephi not to ask contrary to His will?
  20. How can “unwearyingness” coexist with sorrow, fatigue, rest, and human limits?
  21. What is sealing power in Helaman 10, and what prevents it from becoming domination?
  22. What moral guardrails are needed when teaching the famine?
  23. What earlier warnings did the people ignore before famine became the interrupter?
  24. Why was Nephi willing to ask both for closed heavens and for rain?
  25. What practices might preserve crisis-learned truth during prosperity?
  26. Why do Gadianton bands reappear after apparent defeat?
  27. What does Mormon mean—and not mean—by “less than the dust”?
  28. Why is Helaman 12:15 better read as theological movement than a modern astronomy claim?
  29. How does MacKay’s time-lag caution prevent judging prosperity or suffering simplistically?
  30. What is one fact about Christ I recall but do not yet actively remember in covenant practice?
  31. What would sacramental remembrance change in one ordinary decision this week?
  32. How does Mormon’s desire that all be saved change the tone of his severe warning?

Assigned Chapters

Key Passages in the Unit

Restoration and Biblical Parallels

Annotated Source Guide

Official and Scriptural

  • Come, Follow Me—For Home and Church: Book of Mormon 2024, lesson 36. Supplies the exact official title and central framing: Nephi’s ministry tries to help people remember; prophets reveal God’s will; signs alone do not convert; the Lord entrusts power to those who seek His will; pondering invites revelation; and Helaman 12 calls disciples toward steadiness.1
  • The Book of Mormon, Helaman 7–12. Primary source for narrative, doctrine, quotations, chronology, and commentary. The chapter-level Gospel Library links above are the reading base. This guide links the canonical Book of Mormon index at The Book of Mormon.

Curated Scholarship

  • BYU Studies Come, Follow Me, lesson 36. The retained local note inventories lesson-specific scholarship by chapter and distinguishes historical, legal, linguistic, theological, and editorial proposals from official teaching: BYU Studies Come, Follow Me — Remember the Lord — Helaman 7–12.3
  • John W. Welch, “Was Helaman 7–8 an Allegorical Funeral Sermon?” Supplies the vivid but explicitly tentative interpretation of Nephi’s tower lament as an enacted funeral for society.4
  • Matthew L. Bowen, “‘He Is God; and He Is with Them.’” Connects Helaman 8:21–23 with Isaiah’s Immanuel theme and the presence of the preserved Davidic line among the people of Zarahemla.11
  • Scripture Central, “Why Could Seantum Be Convicted without Any Witnesses?” Proposes a legal-historical reading involving confession, blood evidence, divine disclosure, and comparison with Achan.12
  • Andrew C. Skinner, “Nephi’s Ultimate Encounter with Deity.” Emphasizes Nephi’s tested fidelity, eternal blessing, identity before God, and sealing power; its calling-and-election frame remains attributed scholarly theology.9
  • Thomas W. MacKay, “Mormon’s Philosophy of History.” Treats chapter 12 as a window into Mormon’s providential editing and warns that prosperity is not a reliable stand-alone index of righteousness.5
  • David A. Grandy, “Why Things Move.” Re-centers Helaman 12:15 on creation’s responsiveness to God rather than claims of precocious modern astronomy.2

Local Series and Artifacts

  • followHIM, “Remember the Lord,” with Professor Shima Baradaran Baughman (2024). The local proofread show-notes PDF and new searchable Markdown extraction contribute the crime-and-pride discussion, anti-Zion implications of neglecting the poor, remembrance, Nephi’s trustworthiness, famine, and hope. These are legal, devotional, and pastoral applications, not official Church curriculum.6
  • Jared Halverson, Unshaken, “Helaman 7–12 — These Are Your Days.” Contributes the could-have/would-have/do-have framing, prophets exposing blind spots, pondering, a humane reading of unwearyingness, the Peter/Nephi sealing parallel, and divine trust through aligned will. Devotional interpretation.7
  • Emily Belle Freeman and David Butler, Don’t Miss This, “Helaman 7–12.” Contributes “these are my days,” a close look at a prophet’s prayer, the five investigators becoming converting witnesses, and the narrative sequence of pondering. The local transcript comes from the earlier chapter-equivalent curriculum cycle; its displayed dates differ from the 2024 week.8
  • Gospel Talktrine. The local Book of Mormon collection was searched by Helaman, chapter range, lesson number, Nephi, Seezoram, remembrance, famine, and sealing themes. No matching Helaman 7–12 episode was found in the current local collection during this run, so no contribution is attributed to the series.
  • Marion G. Romney / Ida story. A retained local story note uses Helaman 10:4–5 to illustrate prayer that seeks God’s will before exercising faith: President Romney — Fasting for Ida.10

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Footnotes

  1. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “September 2–8: ‘Remember the Lord.’ Helaman 7–12,” Come, Follow Me—For Home and Church: Book of Mormon 2024 (2023), official lesson 36. Official Church curriculum; the title and quoted lesson framing come from this page. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  2. David A. Grandy, “Why Things Move: A New Look at Helaman 12:15,” BYU Studies Quarterly 51, no. 2 (2012), full text. Scholarly interpretation distinguishing Mormon’s theological concern with responsive creation from a modern heliocentric proof-text. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  3. BYU Studies, “Remember the Lord—Helaman 7–12,” Come, Follow Me: Book of Mormon, lesson 36, index; retained locally as BYU Studies Come, Follow Me — Remember the Lord — Helaman 7–12. Curated scholarly index; linked proposals are not official Church determinations. ↩ ↩2

  4. John W. Welch, “Was Helaman 7–8 an Allegorical Funeral Sermon?” in Reexploring the Book of Mormon, ed. John W. Welch (Salt Lake City and Provo, UT: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1992), Scripture Central archive. Scholarly proposal; the text does not explicitly identify Nephi’s mourning as a funeral rite. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  5. Thomas W. MacKay, “Mormon’s Philosophy of History: Helaman 12 in the Perspective of Mormon’s Editing Procedure,” in The Book of Mormon: Helaman Through 3 Nephi 8, According to Thy Word, ed. Monte S. Nyman and Charles D. Tate Jr. (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1992), full text. Scholarly analysis of Mormon’s providential historiography. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  6. Hank Smith and John Bytheway with Shima Baradaran Baughman, “Remember the Lord,” followHIM: A Come, Follow Me Podcast, episode 36 (2024), proofread show notes and transcripts, searchable Markdown extraction and local PDF. Devotional podcast with criminal-law and social-policy applications; not official Church curriculum. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  7. Jared Halverson, “Come Follow Me — Helaman 7–12 — These Are Your Days,” Unshaken (Book of Mormon series), local transcript, YouTube. Devotional verse-by-verse interpretation; the nostalgia, Johari-window, unwearyingness, and sealing-power applications are the speaker’s readings. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  8. Emily Belle Freeman and David Butler, “Come Follow Me Helaman 7–12,” Don’t Miss This (Book of Mormon series), local transcript, YouTube. Devotional teaching source; the transcript’s displayed dates belong to an earlier chapter-equivalent curriculum cycle. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  9. Andrew C. Skinner, “Nephi’s Ultimate Encounter with Deity: Some Thoughts on Helaman 10,” in The Book of Mormon: Helaman Through 3 Nephi 8, According to Thy Word, ed. Monte S. Nyman and Charles D. Tate Jr. (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1992), full text. Latter-day Saint scholarly theology; its calling-and-election identification is an interpretation beyond the chapter’s explicit language. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  10. F. Burton Howard, account of Marion G. Romney and Ida Jensen Romney, excerpt retained in President Romney — Fasting for Ida. Biographical devotional story; used as an illustration of seeking God’s will, not as a promise that every faithful blessing produces physical healing. ↩ ↩2

  11. Matthew L. Bowen, “‘He Is God; and He Is with Them’: Helaman 8:21–23 and Isaiah’s Immanuel Prophecy as a Thematic Scriptural Concept,” BYU Studies 62, no. 1 (2023), full text. Linguistic and thematic scholarship, not an official interpretation. ↩ ↩2

  12. Scripture Central, “Why Could Seantum Be Convicted without Any Witnesses?” KnoWhy 180, article. Legal-historical reconstruction comparing Helaman 9 with Joshua 7; not a complete statement of Nephite or modern evidence law. ↩ ↩2

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