A Brief Explanation Concerning The Records
Page 17A Brief Explanation Concerning The Records
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The ancient record is said to have been gathered from five classes of plates:
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1. THE SMALL PLATES OF NEPHI, containing visions, questions, contradictory memories, and things considered too interesting to omit.
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2. THE LARGE PLATES OF NEPHI, containing wars, migrations, inventories, committee minutes, irrigation disputes, and many matters wisely abridged.
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3. THE PLATES OF MOSIAH, concerning government, thrones, titles, and the discovery that an impressive chair remains furniture.
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4. THE PLATES OF ETHER, concerning the First Point, relationship, Change, the observer, and cosmological conjectures which the engraver repeatedly marked “DO NOT CONFUSE WITH SETTLED PHYSICS.”
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5. THE PLATES OF MORONI, being a late compilation hidden in the earth because cloud storage had not yet been provisioned.
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The record which followeth remaineth an abridgment, though the editor hath allowed it more room.