4  A ^avirtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

  9  And notwithstanding this great abomination of the Lamanites, it doth not exceed that of our people in Moriantum. For behold, many of the daughters of the Lamanites have they taken prisoners; and after depriving them of that which was most dear and precious above all things, which is chastity and virtue—