Mormon’s final comments about the small plates place them in the context of the Nephite archive. Amaleki gave them to Benjamin and Benjamin then added them to the collection of records kept in the Nephite archive. His final testimony of them is that they contain great things, and that they should be preserved. Mormon did not understand the purpose in the Lord’s command to include them, but perhaps Mormon saw that as one of the ways that they would be preserved. He had prophetic revelation that his record would remain, but perhaps concomitant with that understanding was that the rest of the Nephite archive would not survive. Thus, the small plates were preserved because they were included with Mormon’s record.