Mosiah — Chapter 13
1 After the king heard these words, he said to his priests: “Take this man away and kill him. Why should we listen to him? He’s crazy.”
2 Then they tried to take him away, but he said:
3 “Don’t touch me, or God will destroy you, because I am not done telling you what the Lord sent me to tell you. I have not answered the question you asked me, so God will not let me be destroyed right now.
4 “But I must do what God has commanded me. You are angry with me because I have told you the truth. You think I am crazy because I have said what God wants me to say.”
5 After Abinadi said this, King Noah’s people were afraid to touch him, because the Spirit of the Lord was on him, and his face shined like Moses’ face when Moses talked to the Lord on Mount Sinai.
6 Abinadi spoke with the power of God, saying:
7 You see that you do not have the power to kill me, so I will finish telling you what I was sent to say. Yes, I see that it cuts you to your hearts that I am telling you the truth about your sins.
8 Yes, my words surprise and amaze you, and make you angry.
9 But I will finish telling you what I was sent to say, and then it will not matter what happens to me, just so long as I am saved.
10 But I can tell you this, that whatever you do to me will be a sign of what will happen to you later on.
11 Now I will read to you the rest of God’s commandments, because I can see that they are not written in your hearts. I can also see that you have studied and taught evil for most of your lives.
12 Remember I said to you: “Do not make any idols or statues of things in heaven or in earth to worship.”
13 And again: “Do not worship them nor serve them, because I the Lord your God am a jealous God, and I will punish the children, and grandchildren, and great-grandchildren for the sins of their ancestors who hate me.
14 “But I will have mercy on the thousands who love me and keep my commandments.
15 “Do not use the name of the Lord your God in a wrong way. The Lord will find people guilty who use his name in a wrong way.
16 “Remember to keep the sabbath day holy.
17 “You will do all your work six days of the week.
18 “But on the seventh day, which is the sabbath of the Lord your God, you will not do any work–not you, not your son or your daughter, not your servants, nor your animals, nor anyone staying in your house,
19 “Because the Lord made everything in heaven and earth and in the sea in six days, and [on the seventh day] he rested, and blessed it, and made it holy.
20 “Be good to your father and your mother, so you will live long in the land the Lord your God gives you.
21 “Do not kill.
22 “Do not commit adultery. Do not steal.
23 “Do not lie about your neighbor.
24 “Do not envy your neighbor’s house, nor their wife or husband, nor their servants, nor their ox, nor their donkey, nor anything of your neighbor’s.”
25 When Abinadi was done saying these things, he said to them: Have you taught this people to keep all these commandments?
26 I tell you, No. If you had, the Lord would not have sent me to prophesy bad things about this people.
27 Now, you have said the Law of Moses can save people. I tell you that you still need to keep the Law of Moses, but the time will come when you will not have to keep the Law of Moses anymore.
28 The Law of Moses by itself does not save people, because if God himself did not pay for the sins and evil doings of his people, they would die, even with the Law of Moses.
29 The children of Israel needed to have a very strict law given to them, because they were very stubborn people, quick to do evil, and slow to remember the Lord their God.
30 So they were given a law, and rules to follow day by day, to help them remember God and to serve him.
31 But all these things showed what was to come after.
32 Did they understand the Law of Moses? I tell you, No. They did not all understand it, because of the hardness of their hearts. They did not understand that people could not be saved without God’s sacrifice.
33 Didn’t Moses prophesy about the Messiah’s coming, and that God would save his people? Yes, and all the prophets since the world began have prophesied something about these things.
34 Didn’t they say God himself would come down as a man among people, and use his great power on earth?
35 Yes, and didn’t they say he would bring about the resurrection of the dead, and that he himself would be wounded and treated badly?
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