1 Nephi 21: 6

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THE FIRST BOOK OF NEPHI
HIS REIGN AND MINISTRY

CHAPTER 21

6 And he said: It is a light thing that thou shouldst be my servant to raise up the ^atribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give thee for a ^blight to the ^cGentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the ends of the earth.

Footnotes

6a	TG Israel, Twelve Tribes of.
b	Ezek. 5: 5. 5 ¶ Thus saith the Lord God; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the ^amidst of the nations and countries that are round about her. D&C 103: 9 (8-9) 9 For they were set to be a ^alight unto the world, and to be the ^bsaviors of men; Abr. 2: 11 (6-11) 11 And I will ^abless them that bless thee, and ^bcurse them that curse thee; and in thee (that is, in thy Priesthood) and in thy ^cseed (that is, thy Priesthood), for I give unto thee a promise that this ^dright shall continue in thee, and in thy seed after thee (that is to say, the literal seed, or the seed of the body) shall all the families of the earth be blessed, even with the blessings of the Gospel, which are the blessings of salvation, even of life eternal.
c	3 Ne. 21: 11. 11 Therefore it shall come to pass that whosoever will not believe in my words, who am Jesus Christ, which the Father shall cause ^ahim to bring forth unto the ^bGentiles, and shall give unto him power that he shall bring them forth unto the Gentiles, (it shall be done even as Moses said) they shall be ^ccut off from among my people who are of the covenant. TG Israel, Mission of.