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Alma 17:9

And it came to pass that they journeyed many days in the wilderness, and they fasted much and prayed much that the Lord would grant unto them a portion of his Spirit to go with them, and abide with them, that they might be an instrument in the hands of God to bring, if it were possible, their brethren, the Lamanites, to the knowledge of the truth, to the knowledge of the baseness of the traditions of their fathers, which were not correct.

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Alma 17:9

And it came to pass that they journeyed many days in the wilderness, and they fasted much and prayed much that the Lord would grant unto them a portion of his Spirit to go with them, and abide with them, that they might be an instrument in the hands of God to bring, if it were possible, their brethren, the Lamanites, to the knowledge of the truth, to the knowledge of the baseness of the traditions of their fathers,…

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Alma 2 — Amlici Rejected by the Voice of the People — the First Civil War of the Judges, the Self-Crowned King, and the Battle at the Sidon
Alma 16 — The Desolation of Nehors — Ammonihah Destroyed in a Day, the Zoram Rescue at Sidon, and the Many Things That Looked Forth for the Coming of Christ
Alma 18 — Is It a Man? — Lamoni's Great-Spirit Question, Ammon's Pedagogical Bridge from Creation to Christ, and the King Overcome unto Falling-as-Dead
Alma 19 — The Light of the Everlasting Life Was Lit Up in His Soul — The Queen's Greater Faith, Abish the Long-Hidden Witness, and the Conversion of Lamoni's Household
Alma 20 — Go Not Up to the Land of Nephi — The Lord's Course Correction, the King over All the Land, and Ammon's Disarming Defense of His Friend
Alma 21 — Aaron in the City of Jerusalem — The Amalekites and Amulonites, the Synagogue Disputation, and the Prison of Middoni
Alma 22 — I Will Give Away All My Sins to Know Thee — The Great King Converted, and the Geography Insert
Alma 23 — They Never Did Fall Away — Seven Cities Converted, the Anti-Nephi-Lehies Named, and the Exceptions
Alma 24 — Rather Than Shed the Blood of Our Brethren — Weapons Buried Deep, 1,005 Slain Singing Praise, and the Convert Count That Exceeded the Body Count
Alma 26 — How Many Thousands of Our Brethren Has He Loosed From the Pains of Hell — Ammon's Hymn of Rejoicing, and the Boast That Is Not a Boast
Alma 28 — A Tremendous Battle, and Then a Tremendous Silence — The Great War, the Mourning of a Nation, and the Inequality of Man Because of Sin
Alma 37 — By Small and Simple Things — The Sacred Records, the Liahona, and the Charge to Helaman
Ether 12 — My Grace Is Sufficient — Moroni on Faith, and the Weak Things Made Strong
Jacob 3 — The Pure in Heart, the Lamanite Husbands, and the Mercy Available Yet
Mosiah 10 — The Tradition of the Fathers — A Wrong That Is Taught, A Hatred That Is Inherited, A Deliverance That Comes by Remembrance
Mosiah 20 — The Daughters of the Lamanites — Abduction by the Priests of Noah, the Women Who Fought Beside the Men, and the Reconciliation by Honest Confession
Mosiah 25 — The Great Gathering in Zarahemla — Three Records Read, the Mulekite Majority Numbered, Limhi's People Baptized by Alma, and Seven Churches Organized in the Land
Mosiah 27 — The Angel, the Three Days of Death-Like Sleep, and the Born-Again — Alma the Younger and the Sons of Mosiah Converted, the Earth Trembling, the Soul Redeemed from the Gall of Bitterness
Mosiah 28 — The Sons of Mosiah Depart for the Lamanites — They Could Not Bear That Any Soul Should Perish, Mosiah Translates the Jaredite Plates by the Interpreters, the Office of the Seer Defined
Doctrine and Covenants 32 — Into the Wilderness
Esther 4 — For Such a Time as This — Sackcloth at the Gate, the Charge That Cannot Be Refused, and the Queen Who Chose to Perish

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