1 Nephi 19
It sounds like Nephi did not begin making his permanent record until he arrived in the promised land. (He might have had some less durable journal before that.) I suspect that one of the reasons that so much of the first two books of Nephi are comprised of quotations from the scriptures and from Jacob were that Nephi had already recorded the history and these plates were meant to focus on doctrine. I had not realized before that this record of the doctrine was intended not only for a historical record but as a source for teaching his people.
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