<!--more--><div class="scripturelog_navigation"><div> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1200000">Book of Mormon</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1200002">1 Nephi</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1200143">Chapter 6</a></div><div><span class="scripturelog_navigation_previous"><a href="?page_id=1200120">&laquo; Previous Chapter</a></span> &bull; <span class="scripturelog_navigation_next"><a href="?page_id=1200150">Next Chapter &raquo;</a></span></div></div><p><em>Original Chapter 2.  Comprising chapters 6 to 9 inclusive.</em></p><ul class="scripturelog_verse_list"><li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1200144">1</a>. And now I, Nephi, do not give the genealogy of my fathers in this part of my record; neither at any time shall I give it after upon these plates which I am writing; for it is given in the record which has been kept by my father; wherefore, I do not write it in this work.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1200145">2</a>. For it sufficeth me to say that we are descendants of Joseph.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1200146">3</a>. And it mattereth not to me that I am particular to give a full account of all the things of my father, for they cannot be written upon these plates, for I desire the room that I may write of the things of God.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1200147">4</a>. For the fulness of mine intent is that I may persuade men to come unto the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, and be saved.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1200148">5</a>. Wherefore, the things which are pleasing unto the world I do not write, but the things which are pleasing unto God and unto those who are not of the world.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1200149">6</a>. Wherefore, I shall give commandment unto my seed, that they shall not occupy these plates with things which are not of worth unto the children of men.</li>
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