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that same being who did entice our first parents to partake of

       the forbidden fruit—

      Helaman 6:27

       27 Yea, that same being who did plot with Cain, that if he would

       murder his brother Abel it should not be known unto the world.

       And he did plot with Cain and his followers from that time forth.

      Helaman 6:28

       28 And also it is that same being who put it into the hearts of

       the people to build a tower sufficiently high that they might get

       to heaven. And it was that same being who led on the people who

       came from that tower into this land; who spread the works of

       darkness and abominations over all the face of the land, until he

       dragged the people down to an entire destruction, and to an

       everlasting hell.

      Helaman 6:29

       29 Yea, it is that same being who put it into the heart of

       Gadianton to still carry on the work of darkness, and of secret

       murder; and he has brought it forth from the beginning of man

       even down to this time.

      Helaman 6:30

       30 And behold, it is he who is the author of all sin. And

       behold, he doth carry on his works of darkness and secret murder,

       and doth hand down their plots, and their oaths, and their

       covenants, and their plans of awful wickedness, from generation

       to generation according as he can get hold upon the hearts of the

       children of men.

      Helaman 6:31

       31 And now behold, he had got great hold upon the hearts of the

       Nephites; yea, insomuch that they had become exceedingly wicked;

       yea, the more part of them had turned out of the way of

       righteousness, and did trample under their feet the commandments

       of God, and did turn unto their own ways, and did build up unto

       themselves idols of their gold and their silver.

      Helaman 6:32

       32 And it came to pass that all these iniquities did come unto

       them in the space of not many years, insomuch that a more part of

       it had come unto them in the sixty and seventh year of the reign

       of the judges over the people of Nephi.

      Helaman 6:33

       33 And they did grow in their iniquities in the sixty and eighth

       year also.

      Helaman 6:34

       34 And thus we see that the Nephites did begin to dwindle in

       unbelief, and grow in wickedness and abominations, while the

       Lamanites began to grow exceedingly in the knowledge of their

       God; yea, they did begin to keep his statutes and commandments,

       and to walk in truth and uprightness before him.

      Helaman 6:35

       35 And thus we see that the Spirit of the Lord began to withdraw

       from the Nephites, because of the wickedness and the hardness of

       their hearts.

      Helaman 6:36

       36 And thus we see that the Lord began to pour out his Spirit

       upon the Lamanites, because of their easiness and willingness to

       believe in his words.

      Helaman 6:37

       37 And it came to pass that the Lamanites did hunt the band of

       robbers of Gadianton; and they did preach the word of God among

       the more wicked part of them, insomuch that this band of robbers

       was utterly destroyed from among the Lamanites.

      Helaman 6:38

       38 And it came to pass on the other hand, that the Nephites did

       build them up and support them, beginning at the more wicked part

       of them, until they had overspread all the land of the Nephites,

       and had seduced the more part of the righteous until they had

       come down to believe in their works and partake of their spoils,

       and to join with them in their secret murders and combinations.

      Helaman 6:39

       39 And thus they did obtain the sole management of the

       government, insomuch that they did trample under their feet and

       smite and rend and turn their backs upon the poor and the meek,

       and the humble followers of God.

      Helaman 6:40

       40 And thus we see that they were in an awful state, and

       ripening for an everlasting destruction.

      Helaman 6:41

       41 And it came to pass that thus ended the sixty and eighth year

       of the reign of the judges over the people of Nephi.

      Helaman 7 Chapter 7

      Helaman 7:1

       1 Behold, now it came to pass in the sixty and ninth year of the

       reign of the judges over the people of the Nephites, that Nephi,

       the son of Helaman, returned to the land of Zarahemla from the

       land northward.

      Helaman 7:2

       2 For he had been forth among the people who were in the land

       northward, and did preach the word of God unto them, and did

       prophesy many things unto them;

      Helaman 7:3

       3 And they did reject all his words, insomuch that he could not

       stay among them, but returned again unto the land of his

       nativity.

      Helaman 7:4

       4 And seeing the people in a state of such awful wickedness, and

       those Gadianton robbers filling the judgment-seats—having

       usurped the power and authority of the land; laying aside the

       commandments of God, and not in the least aright before him;

       doing no justice unto the children of men;

      Helaman 7:5

       5 Condemning the righteous because of their righteousness;

       letting the guilty and the wicked go unpunished because of their

       money; and moreover to be held in office at the head of

       government, to rule and do according to their wills, that they

       might get gain and glory of the world, and, moreover, that they

       might the more easily commit adultery, and steal, and kill, and

       do according to their own wills—

      Helaman 7:6

       6 Now this great iniquity had come upon the Nephites, in the

       space of not many years; and when Nephi saw it, his heart was

       swollen with sorrow within his breast; and he did exclaim in

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