Third Nephi — Chapter 2
1 The ninety-fifth year went by, and people began to forget the signs they had seen. They were less and less surprised by other signs they saw, so they began to get wicked, and began not to believe the things they had seen and heard.
2 They told themselves foolish things–that the signs they had seen were tricks, or had come from the devil. This was how Satan worked to make the people wicked again, and to make them not believe in Christ.
3 The people became more and more wicked, and stopped believing there would be any more signs. Satan did everything he could to make the people do wicked things all over the land.
4 This was how the ninety-sixth, ninety-seventh, ninety-eighth, and ninety-ninth years went by.
5 Then a hundred years had gone by since Mosiah had been the last Nephite king.
6 Six hundred nine years had gone by since Lehi left Jerusalem,
7 And nine years had gone by since the sign of Christ’s birth.
8 The Nephites began to count the years from the time of the sign of Christ’s birth, so nine years had gone by.
9 Nephi’s father, Nephi, who had kept the records, did not come back to Zarahemla, and no one knew where to find him in all the land.
10 The people were still wicked, even though many prophets and teachers were sent to tell them to repent. They were wicked all during the tenth and eleventh years.
11 During the thirteenth year, there were many wars and fights in the land because there were so many Gadianton robbers. The robbers killed so many people, and destroyed so many cities, that both the Nephites and the Lamanites had to make war against them.
12 So all the righteous Lamanite men joined their Nephite brothers and went to war against the Gadianton robbers to protect their own lives, and to protect their wives and families and children and freedom and religion and churches.
13 Before the end of the thirteenth year, the Nephites were close to being completely destroyed because of this terrible war.
14 The Lamanites who had joined the Nephites were counted as Nephites.
15 Their curse went away, and they began to have lighter skin, and to look like Nephites.
16 Their sons and daughters were very beautiful, and they were counted as Nephites, and were called Nephites. And the thirteenth year went by.
17 In the beginning of the fourteenth year, the war was still going on between the Nephites and the Gadianton robbers. It got worse, but the Nephites began to defeat the robbers. They chased them out of their lands and back into the robbers’ secret hiding places in the mountains.
18 The fourteenth year ended. Then in the fifteenth year, the robbers came to war against the Nephites. Then the Gadianton robbers began to defeat the Nephites, because many of the Nephites were wicked, and fought among each other.
19 This was how the fifteenth year ended. The people were in terrible trouble and were close to being destroyed because of their wickedness.
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