24. Gather up many writing tablets, and take with you Sarea, Dabria, Selemia, Ethanus, and Asiel, these five, who are trained to write fast.
25. Come here, and I will light in your heart the lamp of understanding. It won’t be extinguished until you have written everything down.
26. When you are finished, you will make some things public, others you will transmit secretly to the wise. You will begin to write tomorrow at this time."
27. I did as he commanded me. I gathered all the people and said,
28. "Hear these words, Israel.
29. At first our fathers lived as strangers in Egypt, and they were liberated from there.
30. They received the Law of life, but they didn’t keep it, and you also transgressed after them.
31. You were given land by allotment in the region of Zion. You and your fathers did evil and didn’t keep the ways that the Most High had commanded you.
32. Since he is a just judge, in time he took away from you what he granted.
33. Now you are here, and your relatives live even farther away.