35 Wherefore, as they were white, and exceeding fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people, the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them.
36 And thus saith the Lord God, I will cause that they shall be loathsome unto thy people, save they shall repent of their iniquities.
37 And cursed shall be the seed of him that mixeth with their seed: for they shall be cursed even with the same cursing.
38 And the Lord spake it, and it was done.
39 And because of their cursing which was upon them, they did become an idle people, full of mischief and subtlety, and did seek in the wilderness for beasts of prey.
40 And the Lord God said unto me, They shall be a scourge unto thy seed, to stir them up in remembrance of me;
41 And inasmuch as they will not remember me, and hearken unto my words, they shall scourge them even unto destruction.
42 And it came to pass that I, Nephi, did consecrate Jacob and Joseph, that they should be priests and teachers over the land of my people.
43 And it came to pass that we lived after the manner of happiness.
44 And thirty years had passed away from the time we left Jerusalem.
45 And I, Nephi, had kept the records upon my plates, which I had made of my people, thus far.
