And I went in unto the king, and he covenanted with me that I might possess the land of Lehi–Nephi, and the land of Shilom. And he also commanded that his people should depart out of the land, and I and my people went into the land that we might possess it.
now it was the cunning and the craftiness of king Laman, to bring my people into bondage, that he yielded up the land that we might possess it.