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 things that were forbidden to come to the people until after He would be lifted up on the cross.

King Mosiah withheld this translated record (from the twenty-four pure gold plates) so they would not come to the world until after Christ had shown Himself to His people.

After Christ had shown Himself to His people, He commanded this record to be made known.

And now, after knowing these great things, the Nephites have all fallen because of their unbelief.

Only the Lamanites are left, and they have rejected the gospel of Christ, so I, Moroni, have been commanded to hide the record of Jared's brother in the earth.

Before hiding it, I engraved his vision upon my plates, and there never have been greater things made known than what is revealed in this vision.

Because these things are so great, the Lord commanded me to engrave them on my plates. He also commanded me to seal them up along with the interpreters (the two stones affixed to the ends of a bow).

The Lord told me,