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 Do not ask for something to fulfill your selfish desires. Ask with determined faith, that you will not give in to any temptation, but that you will serve the true and living God.

Do not be baptized or take the sacrament of Christ unworthy. Do it in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God.

If you do this and continue in righteousness throughout your lives, you will live in God's kingdom.

I speak to you as if speaking from the dead, for I know you will have my words when I am gone.

Do not condemn me, nor my father Mormon, nor others because of our imperfections. Thank God for showing you our imperfections, that you may learn to be more wise than our people have been.

We have written this record according to our knowledge, in the characters we call reformed Egyptian. This language has been handed down and changed by us, according to our way of speaking.


 * Note: One example of their changed speech was the elimination of the phrase, “And It came to pass". Mormon and Moroni never used that phrase in their own writings. It was archaic even in their day.

If our plates had been large enough, we would have written in Hebrew, which we have also changed over the years. If we had