“I, Mormon, Make a Record of the Things Which I Have Both Seen and Heard”

Brant Gardner

Ammaron’s instructions are standard. Mormon is to take the plates and write “things that ye have observed concerning this people.” This is not a charge to create the Book of Mormon but to continue the Nephite chronicle “on the plates of Nephi.”

Second Witness: Analytical & Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon, Vol. 6

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