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The Book of Mormon

Jr. Joseph Smith · Public domain text

275,719 words · about 19 h 18 min to read

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The Book of Mormon is a religious text of the Latter Day Saint movement, first published in 1830 by Joseph Smith as The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi.

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Authors
Joseph Smith, Jr. (1805–1844), Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Language
English
Subjects
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints › Sacred books, Latter Day Saint churches › Sacred books
Length
275,719 words · about 19 h 18 min
Sections
15 reader sections · Table of contents
Contents (15)
  1. Opening about 1 h 53 min
  2. THE SECOND BOOK OF NEPHI about 2 h 7 min
  3. THE BOOK OF JACOB about 39 min
  4. THE BOOK OF ENOS about 5 min
  5. THE BOOK OF JAROM about 3 min
  6. THE BOOK OF OMNI about 6 min
  7. THE WORDS OF MORMON about 4 min
  8. THE BOOK OF MOSIAH about 2 h 14 min
  9. THE BOOK OF ALMA about 6 h 6 min
  10. THE BOOK OF HELAMAN about 1 h 28 min
  11. THIRD BOOK OF NEPHI about 2 h 4 min
  12. FOURTH NEPHI about 9 min
  13. THE BOOK OF MORMON about 41 min
  14. THE BOOK OF ETHER about 1 h 12 min
  15. THE BOOK OF MORONI about 27 min

The opening of THE SECOND BOOK OF NEPHI

An account of the death of Lehi. Nephi’s brethren rebel against him. The Lord warns Nephi to depart into the wilderness. His journeyings in the wilderness, and so forth.

2 Nephi Chapter 1

1:1 And now it came to pass that after I, Nephi, had made an end of teaching my brethren, our father, Lehi, also spake many things unto them, and rehearsed unto them, how great things the Lord had done for them in bringing them out of the land of Jerusalem.

1:2 And he spake unto them concerning their rebellions upon the waters, and the mercies of God in sparing their lives, that they were not swallowed up in the sea.

1:3 And he also spake unto them concerning the land of promise, which they had obtained—how merciful the Lord had been in warning us that we should flee out of the land of Jerusalem.

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