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Mosiah 8:13

Now Ammon said unto him: I can assuredly tell thee, O king, of a man that can translate the records; for he has wherewith that he can look, and translate all records that are of ancient date; and it is a gift from God. And the things are called interpreters, and no man can look in them except he be commanded, lest he should look for that he ought not and he should perish. And whosoever is commanded to look in them, the same is called seer.

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Mosiah 8:13

Now Ammon said unto him: I can assuredly tell thee, O king, of a man that can translate the records; for he has wherewith that he can look, and translate all records that are of ancient date; and it is a gift from God. And the things are called interpreters, and no man can look in them except he be commanded, lest he should look for that he ought not and he should perish. And whosoever is commanded to look in them,…

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2 Nephi 27 — Isaiah 29 Expanded — The Sealed Book, the Learned Man, the Three Witnesses, the Marvelous Work
Alma 22 — I Will Give Away All My Sins to Know Thee — The Great King Converted, and the Geography Insert
Alma 37 — By Small and Simple Things — The Sacred Records, the Liahona, and the Charge to Helaman
Ether 1 — From the Great Tower — Moroni Opens the Jaredite Record, and a Brother's Prayer Against the Confounding
Ether 15 — Save It Were Coriantumr and Shiz — The End of a Nation, and the Last Words of Ether
Helaman 9 — Blood on the Skirts of His Cloak — The Seer and the Hidden Murder
Mosiah 7 — Ammon Finds the Lost Colony — The Bondage Pattern, the Slain Prophet, and the First Pre-Christian Christology Outside Benjamin
Mosiah 21 — Limhi's Bondage Deepens — Three Defeats, Humbled to the Dust, the Lord Slow to Hear, and Many Desire Baptism but None Have Authority
Omni 1 — Omni — Five Voices on a Closing Plate, Mosiah's Flight to Zarahemla, the Mulekites Found, and the Stone of Coriantumr
Words of Mormon 1 — Words of Mormon — The Editor's Seam, the Wise Purpose, and the Providence That Reaches Across Centuries
Doctrine and Covenants 5 — The Testimony of Three Witnesses
Doctrine and Covenants 21 — As If From Mine Own Mouth
2 Kings 20 — The Fifteen Borrowed Years — Tears the Lord Saw, the Shadow That Climbed Backward, and the Treasures Shown to Babylon

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