“Nephi Did Make a Record Upon the Other Plates”

W. Cleon Skousen

By this time Nephi says it had been 30 years since they left Jerusalem. This means it was now 569 B.C. Since they were 8 years in the wilderness and then had to build a ship and cross the Pacific, we estimate they had been in America around twenty years. Nephi had been keeping records all this time, but now the Lord tells him to make another set of records with an emphasis on the spiritual aspects of their history.

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