Remember how you have grieved your children's hearts because of your bad examples. Your sinfulness may bring them to destruction, and if so, their sins will be upon your heads at the last day.
Oh my brethren, listen to me. Awaken your souls from the sleep of death. Loosen yourselves from the pains of hell so that you will not become angels to the devil. Do not be thrown into a lake of fire to your second death (dead to righteousness forever).
I, Jacob, said many other things to Nephi's people, warning them against sexual sins and every kind of sin, telling them the awful consequences of them.
But not even one percent of what these people did can be engraved upon these smaller plates. However, many of their proceedings are engraved on the larger plates--their wars, disputes and reign of their kings.
Some of these smaller plates upon which I now engrave are called Jacob's Plates, even though my brother Nephi made them.
Jacob values prophecies and records...
(compare Jacob, chapter 4)
I have spoken many times to my people, but I can only write a small part of what I said because engraving on plates is so difficult.
We do it knowing what we engrave on metal plates will endure. Any other material we write on (parchment, skin, etc.) will not endure.
The little we engrave on our plates will give our children, and also our beloved brethren, the Lamanites, a little knowledge of
