19 For when Moses had ^aspoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the ^bblood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and ^csprinkled both the book, and all the people,

  5 And now, as the ^apreaching of the ^bword had a great tendency to ^clead the people to do that which was just—yea, it had had more powerful effect upon the minds of the people than the sword, or anything else, which had happened unto them—therefore Alma thought it was expedient that they should try the virtue of the word of God.