“Wherefore I Did Make Plates of Ore That I Might Engraven Upon Them the Record of My People”

W. Cleon Skousen

Shortly after Lehi's colony arrived in America, Nephi was commanded to make metal plates on which their history could be written in reformed Egyptian.

When Nephi made the first set of plates he did not know the Lord would ask him to make a second set which is the one we are now reading.

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