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THE BOOK OF MANTI
Chapter 9
Premium narration
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Manti reports that Timothy's preaching rekindled Mentina's devotion to temple principles and counters the spiritual complacency that followed Christ's post-resurrection visit. Moved by Timothy's words, Manti expands the record with a detailed picture of how the Nem live the Law of Consecration. Newly betrothed couples receive a city plot from the Community Council, and kin or neighbors build the home so no couple begins life unhoused.
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Each family gardens, produces surplus food and crafted goods, and contributes them freely to the storehouse, while larger fields, herds, and flax tracts outside the city are worked communally. The Nem reject private ownership of land, holding themselves stewards of the Lord's footstool. Manti catalogs foods and household medicines—plants for cleansing blood, calming nerves, easing childbirth, treating lungs, skin, and digestion—and describes the varied healing gifts: laying on of hands, manipulation, midwifery, inward sight, and discernment of foreign knowledge.
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Medicine and trade thus become acts of worship.
