When my father heard this, he was very glad, knowing I had been blessed by the Lord.
Then my three older brothers and I took our tents and traveled back to Jerusalem
Upon arriving in Jerusalem, we talked about how to get the brass plates from Laban. We cast lots to know who should go into Laban's house and talk with him. The lot fell upon Laman, so he went in and talked with Laban as he sat in his house,
Laman asked Laban for the brass plates, which contained my father's genealogy. Laban became angry and threw Laman out of his house, shouting, "You're a robber, and I'll kill you!" But Laman escaped, ran back and told us what happened.
We became very discouraged and my brothers were about to return to my father in the wilderness, but I told them, "As the Lord lives, and as we live, we will not go back to our father until we have accomplished the Lord's command.
Let us be faithful like our father, who gave up all his wealth to obey the Lord. Our father knows this city will be destroyed because the people here are so wicked. They have rejected the words of the prophets.
If our father had also rejected the word of the Lord, which told him to leave, then our entire family would still be here and would die. This is why we had to leave.
In His wisdom, the Lord told us to come back here for the records so we can preserve the language of our forefathers and the words of the holy prophets who have spoken by the Spirit and power of God since the world began until now."
