When Nephi declared to the people that they would be smitten if they didn’t repent they didn’t repent and immediately began admitting each other in fulfillment of his word. (Of course the Lord has told him to deliver that exact message.) Notice that Nephi didn’t employ his sealing authority for smiting the people except later in an effort to get them to stop smiting each other and see that the destruction came from God.
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