Mosiah 10:1-5

Brant Gardner

The aftermath of the retaliation is that the people of Zeniff are able to assert their independence, but were required to remain diligent. Having retaliated, it was always possible that another raid would come, perhaps seen as retaliation from the Lamanite perspective. The people of Zeniff are placed into a more militaristic stance, needing to post guards.

The result, however, is a return to prosperity. That is signaled, as usual, by the statement that they did “raise all manner of grain and all manner of fruit of every kind.” In the 1830 edition, this statement of growing foodstuffs followed the previous statement of growing grains by only five paragraphs. The examples of prosperity are expanded here by noting that the women were able to produce cloth. These are common tasks for a pre-industrial people and are not particularly different from any other people in their area. They are, however, evidence that “we did prosper in the land.” They have peace for twenty-two years after the retaliation.

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