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9 The keeper recorded the names they used without requiring one person’s name for an experience to govern every other person’s account.

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10 Laman asked whether the Holy Ghost was offended by a careful question.

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11 A teacher said that no honest invitation needed him to stop caring about what followed from it.

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12 Then Nephi prayed to Heavenly Father and noticed that the image in his mind had borrowed the voice of a person from his childhood.

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13 He did not accuse himself for having an image. He wondered whether the image had room to change.

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14 Outside, a neighbor called plainly that help was needed with a gate.

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15 The voice was neither still nor especially small.

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16 Nephi went to help, without rejecting the request for insufficient mystery.

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17 When he returned, the window remained open.

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18 He wrote: Listen with care; test the action; do not confuse the quietest claim with the truest one.

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19 And the evening ended without requiring an invisible speaker to sign the minutes.

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