עWitnesses

Reign of Mosiah II — early reign of the judges · Mosiah 27 – Alma 31

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Early reign of the judges — c. 91 BC · Alma 19

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Reign of Mosiah II through the closing years of his own ministry — the conversion at c. 100 BC, the first nineteen years of the reign of the judges (c. 91–73 BC); central protagonist of the Book of Alma (chs. 1–44 of the book bearing his name) · Mosiah 27:8 – Alma 45:18

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The great war — c. 73–61 BC · Alma 46 – Alma 62

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Fifth year of the reign of the judges (c. 87 BC); the political-religious successor of Nehor; the first armed counter-revolution against the reign of the judges · Alma 2:1 – Alma 3:25 (the Amlicite-Lamanite war and Mormon's editorial on the mark)

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Reign of Mosiah II — early reign of the judges · Mosiah 27 – Alma 27

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Early reign of the judges — c. 82–74 BC · Alma 8 – Alma 35

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Early reign of the judges — c. 90–77 BC · Alma 23 – Alma 27

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Reign over the unified Mulekite-Nephite kingdom at Zarahemla; the editorial hinge between the small plates and Mormon's abridgment (c. 130 – c. 121 BC) · Words of Mormon 1:10 – Mosiah 6:7

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The extinction of the Jaredite nation · Ether 13 – Ether 15

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Restoration — 1827–1879 · D&C 25; the long shadow of the Restoration

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Second-generation small-plates record-keeper at the land of Nephi (c. 544 – c. 421 BC); the wrestle-conversion that yields the BoM's plate-preservation covenant · Jacob 7:27 – Jarom 1:1

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The final days of the Jaredite nation · Ether 1 – Ether 15

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Reign of Noah and Limhi at the land of Nephi, then the early reign of the judges at Zarahemla (c. 145 BC discovery of Noah's wickedness through c. 91 BC martyrdom) · Mosiah 19:4 – Alma 1:9; toponymically memorialized in Alma 2:20, Alma 6:7, Alma 14:1, and onward

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Late reign of the judges — c. 74–57 BC · Alma 36 – Alma 62

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Restoration — 1800–1844 · D&C 11; D&C 23; D&C 124; D&C 135

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Departure from Jerusalem — wilderness journey (c. 600 – c. 593 BC) · 1 Nephi 7 – 1 Nephi 16

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Departure from Jerusalem — wilderness journey — promised land (c. 600 – c. 580 BC) · 1 Nephi 7 – 2 Nephi 5

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Lehite founding generation — wilderness-born; first prophet of the small plates after Nephi (c. 595 – c. 520 BC) · 2 Nephi 2 – 11; 2 Nephi 31; Jacob 1 – 7

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The dispersion from the great tower — earliest Jaredite era · Ether 1 – Ether 6

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The dispersion from the great tower — earliest Jaredite era · Ether 1 – Ether 6

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Third-generation small-plates record-keeper at the land of Nephi (c. 421 – c. 362 BC); the editor whose restraint is itself the testimony · Enos 1:25 – Omni 1:1

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Restoration — 1820–1844 · Joseph Smith—History; D&C 1–135; Moses; Abraham

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Reign of the judges — c. 75 BC (the seventeenth year) · Alma 30

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Departure from Jerusalem — Lamanite founding (c. 600 – c. 570 BC) · 1 Nephi 2 – 2 Nephi 5; named throughout the rest of the Book of Mormon as the eponymous ancestor of the Lamanite peoples

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Early reign of the judges — c. 91–77 BC · Alma 17 – Alma 27

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Early reign of the judges — c. 90–77 BC · Alma 20 – Alma 24

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Departure from Jerusalem — Lehite colony's founding (c. 600 BC) · 1 Nephi 1 – 2 Nephi 4

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Departure from Jerusalem — Lamanite founding (c. 600 – c. 570 BC) · 1 Nephi 2 – 2 Nephi 5; named throughout the rest of the Book of Mormon as the eponymous ancestor of the Lemuelite tribe (Jacob 1:13)

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The final destruction of the Nephites — c. 311–385 AD · Words of Mormon 1 – Mormon 7 (and the whole abridgement)

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The end of the Nephites and after — c. 385–421 AD and beyond · Mormon 8 – Moroni 10 (and the abridgement of Ether)

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Reign of the judges — the great Amalickiah and Ammoron wars, c. 74–57 BC · Alma 43 – Alma 62

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First prophet-king of the unified Mulekite-Nephite kingdom at Zarahemla (c. 200 – c. 130 BC); the third exodus-leader of the Book of Mormon and the first prophet-translator of the Nephite era · Omni 1:12 – Mosiah 1 (his hand on the records); foundational reference in Words of Mormon 1:13

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First year of the reign of the judges (c. 91 BC); the order he founded haunted the Nephite civilization down to its end · Alma 1:2–15; the *order of Nehor* recurs through Alma 2, 14, 21, 24, and is the named lineage of priestcraft to the end of the Book of Alma

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Lehite founding generation — wilderness, voyage, first kingdom in the promised land (c. 600 – c. 545 BC) · 1 Nephi 1 – 2 Nephi 33; Jacob 1

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Early reign of the judges — appointed in the ninth year of the judges (c. 82 BC); served as chief judge for fifteen years; died c. 68 BC in the twenty-fourth year · Alma 4:17 – Alma 50:37 (death notice); the city of Nephihah recurs through Alma 50–62

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Restoration — 1806–1850; in fellowship 1828–1838 and 1848–1850; estranged 1838–1848 · D&C 6; D&C 8; D&C 9; D&C 13; D&C 17; D&C 18; D&C 20; D&C 21; D&C 23; D&C 24; D&C 27; D&C 28; D&C 110; the Testimony of Three Witnesses

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Reign of Mosiah II — early reign of the judges · Mosiah 27 – Alma 31

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Reign of the judges — c. 67–53 BC · Alma 50 – Alma 62

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Departure from Jerusalem — Lehite colony's founding (c. 600 – c. 580 BC) · 1 Nephi 2 – 2 Nephi 5

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Departure from Jerusalem — Lehite colony's founding (c. 600 – c. 580 BC) · 1 Nephi 2 – 18; 2 Nephi 1 – 5

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Late in the ministry of Jacob, son of Lehi, at the land of Nephi (c. 540s BC, before Jacob's death and the handoff of the small plates to Enos) · Jacob 7:1–20

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Restoration — 1830–1844 (in fellowship); 1844–1876 (after) · D&C 35; D&C 71; D&C 76; D&C 90; D&C 100

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The Amalickiah–Ammoron war — c. 66–62 BC · Alma 53 – Alma 58

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The Amalickiah–Ammoron war — c. 67–61 BC · Alma 50 – Alma 62

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Fourth- through eighth-generation small-plates record-keepers at the land of Nephi and the land of Zarahemla (c. 362 – c. 130 BC); the closing chain of custody before the plates are delivered to King Benjamin · Jarom 1:15 – Omni 1:30; opening verses of Mosiah 1 (the transfer to Benjamin and Mosiah II)

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Early reign of the judges — c. 82–74 BC · Alma 11 – Alma 31

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Lehite founding generation — the covenanted outsider (c. 600 – c. 550 BC) · 1 Nephi 4 – 18; 2 Nephi 1 – 5; Jacob 1

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