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The fruit and the audience

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11 And Nephi said: That too is a useful box.

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12 And I shit you not, they crossed the river slowly.

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13 Some fell.

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14 None were declared sinners for having fallen.

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15 They rose, or were helped according to need, and continued.

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FIRST NEPHI / CHAPTER 4

The fruit and the audience

Lehi dreams of the tree of life; an excellent fruit is almost replaced by an excellent account of having tasted it.

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The tree and its fruit.

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1 And I shit you not, Lehi dreamed a dream in which he found a tree of life beside a river, and its branches bore fruit without a department to approve the crop.

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2 He drew near and tasted; and the fruit was sweet, and he was glad before he had determined what the gladness established.

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3 Then he called to Sariah, and to Laman, Lemuel, Sam, and Nephi, saying: Come and try this.

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4 Sariah asked whether he was offering breakfast or requiring an interpretation.

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5 Lehi considered. Breakfast, he said, might be a good beginning.

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6 And they approached, each according to willingness; but a herald from the great and spacious building arrived first with a register.

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7 Upon it were columns for who had tasted, how sincerely they had tasted, and whether they had used the approved words afterward.

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8 The herald asked Lehi to describe the fruit before eating any more of it.

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