{"book":"1-nephi","chapter":6,"edition":"1830","verses":[{"number":1,"content":"And now I, Nephi, do not give the genealogy of my fathers in this part of my record; neither at any time shall I give it after upon these plates which I am writing; for it is given in the record which has been kept by my father; wherefore I do not write it in this work."},{"number":2,"content":"For it sufficeth me to say, that we are a descendant of Joseph."},{"number":3,"content":"And it mattereth not to me that I am particular to give a full account of all the things of my father, for they cannot be written upon these plates, for I desire the room, that I may write of the things of God."},{"number":4,"content":"For the fullness of mine intent is that I may persuade men to come unto the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, and be saved."},{"number":5,"content":"Wherefore the things which are pleasing unto the world, I do not write, but the things which are pleasing unto God and unto them which are not of the world."},{"number":6,"content":"Wherefore I shall give commandment unto my seed, that they shall not occupy these plates with things which are not of worth unto the children of men."}],"influences":[{"verse":4,"startIndex":72,"endIndex":134,"citation":"Matthew 22:32","description":"I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.","descriptionStartIndex":5,"descriptionEndIndex":67},{"verse":5,"startIndex":124,"endIndex":155,"citation":"John 17:14 (KJV)","description":"I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.","descriptionStartIndex":83,"descriptionEndIndex":124}]}