Alma 63

After Helaman died, his brother Shiblon took on custody of the sacred records and the other sacred objects that his father Alma had given to him. Shiblon was an honest man who stood proudly before God, always did the right thing, and kept God’s commandments.

Moroni died in the 36th year of elected judges. [56 BC]

In the 37th year of elected judges, 5,400 men and their families left Zarahemla for the distant north country. [55 BC]

That same year a strange man named Hagoth built a huge ship on the western sea, and sailed north with many Nephites aboard. In the following two years after the first ship returned, he built more ships to take more Nephites northward. None of them were ever heard from again. Maybe they all drowned at sea.

It was a time of northward migration as many more people also went by land.

In the 39th year of elected judges, Shiblon died. His other brother Corianton was one of those who went north by ship and vanished. Before he died, Shiblon transferred custody of the sacred records to Helaman’s son Helaman3, who saw to it that those parts of the records that weren’t forbidden to be known, were copied and distributed among the Nephite people for all to learn and know.

As had happened in the past some Nephite dissenters defected to the Lamanites to incite them to war. A war party attacked the city of Moronihah, but were beaten back and driven from the lands at great cost. [53 BC]