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18 And the ajudges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;
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20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou aslanderest thine own mother’s son.
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21 And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord God: every man’s sword shall be against his abrother.
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24 Rebel no more against your brother, whose views have been aglorious, and who hath kept the commandments from the time that we left Jerusalem; and who hath been an instrument in the hands of God, in bringing us forth into the land of promise; for were it not for him, we must have perished with bhunger in the wilderness; nevertheless, ye sought to ctake away his life; yea, and he hath suffered much sorrow because of you.
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2 Therefore, I contended with my brethren in the wilderness, for I would that our ruler should make a treaty with them; but he being an austere and a blood-thirsty man commanded that I should be slain; but I was rescued by the shedding of much blood; for father fought against father, and brother against brother, until the greater number of our army was destroyed in the wilderness; and we returned, those of us that were spared, to the land of Zarahemla, to relate that tale to their wives and their children.
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