۲۷ و چنین گذشت که پادشاه بیانیه ای به سرتاسر سرزمین، به میان همۀ مردمش فرستاد که در همۀ سرزمین او بودند، که در همۀ ناحیه های دور و بر بودند، که حتّی در مرز دریا، در شرق و در غرب، و آنجا که از سرزمین زراحملا با باریکه ای از بیابان جدا می شد، که از دریای شرقی حتّی تا دریای غرب می رسید، و دور و بر مرزهای کنار دریا و مرزهای بیابان در شمال در کنار سرزمین زراحملا بود، و مرزهای مانتی از سر رود صیدون، از شرق به سوی غرب ادامه داشت — و بدین گونه لامانیان و نیفایان جدا شده بودند.
27 And it came to pass that the king sent a aproclamation throughout all the land, amongst all his people who were in all his land, who were in all the regions round about, which was bordering even to the sea, on the east and on the bwest, and which was divided from the land of cZarahemla by a narrow strip of wilderness, which ran from the sea east even to the sea west, and round about on the borders of the seashore, and the borders of the wilderness which was on the north by the land of Zarahemla, through the borders of dManti, by the head of the eriver Sidon, running from the east towards the west—and thus were the Lamanites and the Nephites divided.LDS LDS