[Please note that this segment ends in the midst of Alma 9:7]

Alma 9:1

And again, I, Alma, having been commanded of God

that I should take Amulek and go forth and preach again unto this people,

or the people who were in the city of Ammonihah,

it came to pass as I began to preach unto them,

they began to contend with me, saying:

Alma 9:2

Who art thou?

Suppose ye that we shall believe the testimony of one man,

although he should preach unto us that the earth should pass away?

Alma 9:3

Now they understood not the words which they spake;

for they knew not that the earth should pass away.

Alma 9:4

And they said also:

We will not believe thy words

if thou shouldst prophesy that this great city should be destroyed in one day.

Alma 9:5

Now they knew not that God could do such marvelous works,

for they were a hard-hearted and a stiffnecked people.

Alma 9:6

And they said:

Who is God, that sendeth no more authority than one man among this people,

to declare unto them the truth of such great and marvelous things?

Alma 9:7

And they stood forth to lay their hands on me;

but behold, they did not.

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