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2 Nephi 5:30 · 1 Nephi 9:3

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Book of Mormon 2 Nephi 5:30
"the Lord God said unto me: Make other plates; and thou shalt engraven many things upon them which are good in my sight, for the profit of thy people"
Book of Mormon 1 Nephi 9:3
"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"

Two accounts of the same divine command to make the small plates: 2 Nephi 5:30 narrates it in the Lord's own words at the thirty-year mark; 1 Nephi 9:3 reports it in Nephi's editorial voice from inside the finished record. The naming flips with vantage point: 'these plates' (1 Ne 9:3) vs 'other plates' — other relative to the set Nephi 'had kept… thus far' (2 Ne 5:29).