Mosiah — Chapter 28
1 After Mosiah’s sons had done all these things, they took a few people with them and went back to their father, the king, and asked him to let them all go up to the land of Nephi to teach the word of God to their brothers and sisters, the Lamanites.
2 They hoped to be able to teach them about God, and about their ancestors’ sins, and help them not hate the Nephites but be happy in the Lord, so the Nephites and Lamanites could be friends, and not fight in the promised land anymore.
3 They wanted to teach everyone about God’s plan, because they could not stand to think that someone might not be saved. Just thinking about the pain of not being saved made them shake.
4 This was how God’s Spirit worked in them. They had been the worst of sinners. God had had mercy on them and saved them, but they still felt lots of pain because of their sins and their fear that they might not be saved.
5 So they begged their father for many days to let them go up to the land of Nephi.
6 King Mosiah asked the Lord if he should let his sons go teach the gospel to the Lamanites.
7 And the Lord said to Mosiah: “Let them go, because many will believe what they say and be saved. I will protect your sons from the Lamanites.”
8 So Mosiah let them do what they asked.
9 They traveled into the wilderness to go teach the gospel to the Lamanites. I will tell about them later on.
10 Now King Mosiah had no one to give the kingdom to, because none of his sons would take it.
11 After Mosiah translated and had his servants write down the history which was on the gold plates (which Limhi’s people had found and given to him), Mosiah took the brass plates, and the plates of Nephi, and all the things he had kept and saved as God had commanded.
12 (He had translated the gold plates because his people wanted very much to know about the people who had been destroyed.)
13 Mosiah translated the gold plates by using two stones joined together [like a pair of glasses].
14 This tool (the Urim and Thummim) had been made at the beginning of the world and handed down from generation to generation, so people could understand different languages.
15 The Lord had kept and saved them so that everyone who lived in the promised land would know about the sins of those who had lived there before.
16 Whoever uses this tool is what they called a seer in olden times.
17 When Mosiah was done translating the plates, [his people learned that] it was a record of a people who had been destroyed. The plates told of their history from the time they were destroyed back to the time the Tower of Babel was built, when the Lord changed all people’s languages and scattered them all over the earth. It also had a history from that time back to Adam and Eve.
18 This history made Mosiah’s people very sad, but they were also happy to have learned so much.
19 This history will be written later on, because it is important for all people to know about it.
20 Now, as I said, King Mosiah took the brass plates and all the things he had kept, and gave them to Alma, the son of Alma. He gave him the translators, and commanded him to save and keep them, and to keep a record of the people, and to hand them down from generation to generation in the same way it had been done since Lehi had left Jerusalem.
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