RCE Verse Context

63 Ye know that ye are in our hands, yet we do not desire to slay you.

64 "Behold, we have not come out to battle against you, that we might shed your blood for power, Neither do we desire to bring anyone to the yoke of bondage;

65 But this is the very cause for which ye have come against us, Yea, and ye are angry with us because of our religion.

66 "But now, ye behold that the Lord is with us, And ye behold that He hath delivered you into our hands.

67 "And now I would that ye should understand that this is done unto us because of our religion and our faith in Christ."And now ye see that ye cannot destroy this our faith;

69 And never will the Lord suffer that we shall be destroyed, except we should fall into transgression and deny our faith.

70 "And now, Zerahemnah, I command you in the name of that all - powerful God who hath strengthened our arms that we have gained power over you - By our faith, By our religion, And by our rights of worship, And by our church, And by the sacred support which we owe to our wives and our children, By that liberty which binds us to our lands and our country, Yea, and also by the maintenance of the sacred word of God to which we owe all our happiness,

71 And by all that is most dear unto us; Yea, and this is not all - I command you by all the desires which ye have for life that ye deliver up your weapons of war unto us, And we will seek not your blood, but we will spare your lives if ye will go your way and come not again to war against us.

72 "And now if ye do not this, behold, ye are in our hands, And I will command my men that they shall fall upon you and inflict the wounds of death in your bodies, that ye may become extinct;

73 And then we will see who shall have power over this people, Yea, we will see who shall be brought into bondage."