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of my Father.

      Ether 12:38

       38 And now I, Moroni, bid farewell unto the Gentiles, yea, and

       also unto my brethren whom I love, until we shall meet before the

       judgment-seat of Christ, where all men shall know that my

       garments are not spotted with your blood.

      Ether 12:39

       39 And then shall ye know that I have seen Jesus, and that he

       hath talked with me face to face, and that he told me in plain

       humility, even as a man telleth another in mine own language,

       concerning these things;

      Ether 12:40

       40 And only a few have I written, because of my weakness in

       writing.

      Ether 12:41

       41 And now, I would commend you to seek this Jesus of whom the

       prophets and apostles have written, that the grace of God the

       Father, and also the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost, which

       beareth record of them, may be and abide in you forever. Amen.

      Ether 13 Chapter 13

      Ether 13:1

       1 And now I, Moroni, proceed to finish my record concerning the

       destruction of the people of whom I have been writing.

      Ether 13:2

       2 For behold, they rejected all the words of Ether; for he truly

       told them of all things, from the beginning of man; and that

       after the waters had receded from off the face of this land it

       became a choice land above all other lands, a chosen land of the

       Lord; wherefore the Lord would have that all men should serve him

       who dwell upon the face thereof;

      Ether 13:3

       3 And that it was the place of the New Jerusalem, which should

       come down out of heaven, and the holy sanctuary of the Lord.

      Ether 13:4

       4 Behold, Ether saw the days of Christ, and he spake concerning

       a New Jerusalem upon this land.

      Ether 13:5

       5 And he spake also concerning the house of Israel, and the

       Jerusalem from whence Lehi should come—after it should be

       destroyed it should be built up again, a holy city unto the Lord;

       wherefore, it could not be a new Jerusalem for it had been in a

       time of old; but it should be built up again, and become a holy

       city of the Lord; and it should be built unto the house of

       Israel.

      Ether 13:6

       6 And that a New Jerusalem should be built upon this land, unto

       the remnant of the seed of Joseph, for which things there has

       been a type.

      Ether 13:7

       7 For as Joseph brought his father down into the land of Egypt,

       even so he died there; wherefore, the Lord brought a remnant of

       the seed of Joseph out of the land of Jerusalem, that he might be

       merciful unto the seed of Joseph that they should perish not,

       even as he was merciful unto the father of Joseph that he should

       perish not.

      Ether 13:8

       8 Wherefore, the remnant of the house of Joseph shall be built

       upon this land; and it shall be a land of their inheritance; and

       they shall build up a holy city unto the Lord, like unto the

       Jerusalem of old; and they shall no more be confounded, until the

       end come when the earth shall pass away.

      Ether 13:9

       9 And there shall be a new heaven and a new earth; and they

       shall be like unto the old save the old have passed away, and all

       things have become new.

      Ether 13:10

       10 And then cometh the New Jerusalem; and blessed are they who

       dwell therein, for it is they whose garments are white through

       the blood of the Lamb; and they are they who are numbered among

       the remnant of the seed of Joseph, who were of the house of

       Israel.

      Ether 13:11

       11 And then also cometh the Jerusalem of old; and the

       inhabitants thereof, blessed are they, for they have been washed

       in the blood of the Lamb; and they are they who were scattered

       and gathered in from the four quarters of the earth, and from the

       north countries, and are partakers of the fulfilling of the

       covenant which God made with their father, Abraham.

      Ether 13:12

       12 And when these things come, bringeth to pass the scripture

       which saith, there are they who were first, who shall be last;

       and there are they who were last, who shall be first.

      Ether 13:13

       13 And I was about to write more, but I am forbidden; but great

       and marvelous were the prophecies of Ether; but they esteemed him

       as naught, and cast him out; and he hid himself in the cavity of

       a rock by day, and by night he went forth viewing the things

       which should come upon the people.

      Ether 13:14

       14 And as he dwelt in the cavity of a rock he made the remainder

       of his record, viewing the destructions which came upon the

       people, by night.

      Ether 13:15

       15 And it came to pass that in that same year in which he was

       cast out from among the people there began to be a great war

       among the people, for there were many who rose up, who were

       mighty men, and sought to destroy Coriantumr by their secret

       plans of wickedness, of which hath been spoken.

      Ether 13:16

       16 And now Coriantumr, having studied, himself, in all the arts

       of war and all the cunning of the world, wherefore he gave battle

       unto them who sought to destroy him.

      Ether 13:17

       17 But he repented not, neither his fair sons nor daughters;

       neither the fair sons and daughters of Cohor; neither the fair

       sons and daughters of Corihor; and in fine, there were none of

       the fair sons and daughters upon the face of the whole earth who

       repented of their sins.

      Ether 13:18

       18 Wherefore, it came to pass that in the first year that Ether

       dwelt in the cavity of a rock, there were many people who were