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THE SECOND BOOK OF PA-NAT
Chapter 3
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Pa-Nat continues his record under the prompting of the Spirit, intending to leave instruction for any who might seek to establish refuge as the Nem have done. During his father Shimlei's stewardship, a company came up from the Land Southward to learn at Mentina, and most returned home enriched by the High Place and the libraries. Three men without families—Henmiet, Josin, and Akimt—remained, entered the covenant of consecration, married into Nem families, and were commissioned to plant a settlement far to the north.
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With provisions and young helpers, they traveled until they found a fertile rise above a river in a deep canyon, where they built homes, a common house, storehouses, and a ceremonial lodge of stone, mud, woven branches, and earth, with carefully placed openings and a filtered water system. The settlement, named Nespelem, prospered, multiplied into many villages, and became a center of commerce. Pa-Nat draws the lesson that Zion-building requires not numbers but hearts bound by the celestial covenant of one heart and one mind.
