Noel B. Reynolds has shown that Nephi’s record in the book of First Nephi is composed of two parallel accounts. He calls the first part, found in chapters 1-9, “Lehi’s account” because it is Nephi‘s abridgment of Lehi’s record, and the second, found in chapters 10-22, “Nephi’s account” as here he makes his own record. Each of these individual records parallels the other in both structure and content while at the same time each one is a chiasm within itself. According to Reynolds the central point around which the first chiasm turns is the obtaining of the brass plates. The central point of the second is the building of the boat. [As noted by George Potter & Richard Wellington, Discovering The Lehi-Nephi Trail, Unpublished Manuscript (July 2000), pp. 261-262; see also Noel B. Reynolds, “Nephi’s Outline,” in Book of Mormon Authorship, New Light on Ancient Origins], p. 53] [See the commentary on 1 Nephi 1:20]