The words of Nephi in 1 Nephi are given as a historical record worn with the perspective of time. He didn’t make that record at the time it happened. I don’t know if he recorded some of it himself at the time it happened but I do know that these small plates weren’t made until after the beginning of 2 Nephi so when he recorded this earlier history here he did so with the benefit of years of perspective regarding the outcome of the decisions and attitudes he was recording.
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