>[!Properties]+ Chapter Details >[Gospel Library](https://churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/6?lang=eng) | [Citation Index](https://scriptures.byu.edu/#0cd06::c0cd06) > ![[1 Nephi#1 Nephi 6]] >#Scripture/BoM ###### 1 1 And now I, Nephi, do not give the genealogy of my fathers in this part of my record; neither at any time shall I give it after upon these plates which I am writing; for it is given in the record which has been kept by my father; wherefore, I do not write it in this work. ###### 2 2 For it sufficeth me to say that we are descendants of Joseph. ###### 3 3 And it mattereth not to me that I am particular to give a full account of all the things of my father, for they cannot be written upon these plates, for I desire the room that I may write of the things of God. ###### 4 4 For the fulness of mine intent is that I may persuade men to come unto the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, and be saved. ###### 5 5 Wherefore, the things which are pleasing unto the world I do not write, but the things which are pleasing unto God and unto those who are not of the world. ###### 6 6 Wherefore, I shall give commandment unto my seed, that they shall not occupy these plates with things which are not of worth unto the children of men.