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THE FIRST BOOK OF PA-NAT
Chapter 1
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In the third year of his service, Shigoeth, brother of the record-keeper, perished while climbing to the high overlook where the prophet Samuel once studied and meditated above the City of Mentina. He fell upon the rocks and could not be healed. Though custom held that the eldest son keeps the family record and a male descendant of Hagoth holds the high priesthood, Pa-Nat, a younger brother, now takes up the stylus, and the Council of Mentina calls his sister Nin-Shepa to the office of high priestess.
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She is a prophetess and seer, gifted with translation of strange tongues and foresight by the Holy Ghost. Pa-Nat serves as her clerk and begins his history not with his own day but with earlier missionary labors. He recounts Hagmeni's ministry against the Gadiantons in the Land Northward, converting many into the covenant family of the Nem, and introduces Sanempet's children, whose mission southward to the Nephites this book will chronicle.
