26. And when you have done, some things shall you publish openly, and some things shall you deliver in secret to the wise: tomorrow this hour shall you begin to write.
27. Then went I forth, as he commanded me, and gathered all the people together, and said,
28. Hear these words, O Israel.
29. Our fathers at the beginning were strangers in Egypt, and they were delivered from thence,
30. and received the law of life, which they kept not, which you⌃ also have transgressed after them.
31. Then was the land, even the land of Sion, given you for a possession: but you⌃ yourselves, and your fathers, have done unrighteousness, and have not kept the ways which the Most High commanded you.
32. And forasmuch as he is a righteous judge, he took from you for a while the thing that he had given you.
33. And now you⌃ are here, and your brethren are among you.
34. Therefore if so be that you⌃ will rule over your own understanding, and instruct your hearts, you⌃ shall be kept alive, and after death you⌃ shall obtain mercy.
35. For after death shall the judgement come, when we shall live again: and then shall the names of the righteous be manifest, and the works of the ungodly shall be declared.