Nephi does waffle on a bit and repeat himself somewhat, despite the plates being limited in space, precious, and only for important-to-God stuff...
On this one, he's saying again what things he's going to be writing down. Basically repeats chapter 9.
Anyway, Dad finishes telling everyone about his latest dream (yegads, hearing about other people's dreams is boring and confusing at the best of times.) and started going on about the Jews being destroyed or turned into slaves if they don't sort themselves out.
But he also says that, in six hundred years exactly, there'll be a Messiah. He describes the prophets whom will tell the stories of this Saviour and how even he, Lehi, Dad, isn't worthy of undoing this guy's shoelaces. He also goes on about baptising and then the Messiah will take away the sins of the world. (In fact, this is an amazing bit of prophesying, because John the Baptist says exactly the same thing, word for word, 2200 years later in the King James translation. Pretty much exactly word for word. Almost like someone plagiarised it. I wonder why Jesus thought John was the greatest seer in the world, and not Lehi? I mean, this dude's got all kinds of details seriously spot on, right down to the exact location that John will baptise people.)
He prophesies that the Jews will kill... aww for Pete's sake, let's just call him Jesus already. Yeesh! Anyway, they'll kill Jesus and he'll rise again and "make himself manifest."
Dad compares the house of Israel to a trashed olive tree, with broken branches "scattered upon all the face of the earth" - and how they need to get there first to start telling people about this great Messiah. Who isn't even due for another six hundred years.
He said a pile of other stuff, all of which Neph didn't write down either, but he's written them down for his next novel. I mean, plates.
Neph then rattles on how exciting it'll be to have a Messiah (no matter that you know, six hundred years is a bit out of your average person's lifetime. I'm just saying, don't hold your breath Nephi. Or do. Wouldn't really make much difference, you're not going to see him whilst you're still alive anyway, whether you suffocated or not. Harsh, but true.)
At which point he reminds us all that we're going to be judged and those "unclean" will be "cast off forever". The Holy Ghost has said he's allowed to say that, so there.
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