Nephi’s Records

Part of: Colonization of the Promised Land

• Upon the Lord’s command, Nephi makes some plates out of ore, and records the historical account of Lehi’s story.
• These plates contain the secular history of the people; they are to be handed down from one generation to the next.
• These plates also give accounts of kings and warfare.
• Nephi is commanded to make a second set of plates.
• These plates do not give a full history of his people.
• These plates are for recording the religious and spiritual accounts of his people.
• Nephi only gives a partial account of his and his family’s proceedings in his record.
• Nephi intentionally does not to fill these plates with mundane historical information, he instead fills them with spiritually uplifting content.
• Nephi begins writing in these plates by summarizing his story up to this point—he writes in Judeo–Egyptian language.

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