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Book of Mormon Commentary
Mosiah Chapter 6
The record tells us that they raised "all manner of grain, and... fruit" (31). The women made "all manner
of fine linen; yea, and cloth of every kind" (32).
YOUNG KING LAMAN CONT1NUES THE WAR, VER. 34-58
Mos 6:34 And it came to pass that King Laman died, and his son began to rein in his stead.
6:34 The young king was anxious to bring the Nephites again into subjection. This time the attack came
from the "north of the land of Shilom" (37). They had bows, arrows, swords, cimeters, and even stones
and slings. "They had their heads shaved" (38), and were naked save for a leather girdle about their
loins.
Mos 6:42 And I, even I, in my old age, did go up to battle against the Lamanites.
6:42 Zeniff placed his trust in the Lord, while the Lamanites "depended on their own strength" (44). The
old story claiming Laman was robbed of his birthright was used to create a fighting spirit. The
Lamanites were described as "a wild, and ferocious, and a bloodthirsty people" (45-47; II N. 4:3, 4).
Zeniff explained all these things to his people; he told also of King Laman's "cunning and lying
craftiness, and his fair promises” (Mos. 6:54) by which he deceived Zeniff to make a treaty and occupy
the land. Thus stimulated, the Nephites "did contend with them, face to face" (55). They "did drive them
again out of our land." So many of the enemy were slain that "we did not number them" (56).