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1 Nephi 9:3

Nevertheless, I have received a commandment of the Lord that I should make these plates, for the special purpose that there should be an account engraven of the ministry of my people.

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1 Nephi 9:3

Nevertheless, I have received a commandment of the Lord that I should make these plates, for the special purpose that there should be an account engraven of the ministry of my people.

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1 Nephi 3 — I Will Go and Do — Casting Lots, Failed Strategies, and the Sacred Archive
1 Nephi 6 — The Editorial Manifesto and the Curated Word
1 Nephi 12 — The Vision of the Seed, the Three-Day Darkness, and the Lamb Who Comes Down
1 Nephi 13 — The Two Churches, the Plain and Precious, and the Gentile Vessel
1 Nephi 14 — The Two Churches Only, Saints Armed with Righteousness, and the Apostle John's Embargo
1 Nephi 19 — Zenock, Neum, Zenos, and the Hermeneutic of 'Liken'
Jacob 1 — The Plates Pass to Jacob — Magnifying the Office, the Anxiety for Souls, and the Naming of Kings
Omni 1 — Omni — Five Voices on a Closing Plate, Mosiah's Flight to Zarahemla, the Mulekites Found, and the Stone of Coriantumr
Words of Mormon 1 — Words of Mormon — The Editor's Seam, the Wise Purpose, and the Providence That Reaches Across Centuries
Doctrine and Covenants 3 — The Works of God Cannot Be Frustrated
Doctrine and Covenants 10 — My Wisdom Is Greater Than the Cunning of the Devil
2 Kings 20 — The Fifteen Borrowed Years — Tears the Lord Saw, the Shadow That Climbed Backward, and the Treasures Shown to Babylon

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