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Alma 37:5 · 1 Nephi 5:19

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Book of Mormon Alma 37:5
"if they are kept they must retain their brightness; yea, and they will retain their brightness; yea, and also shall all the plates which do contain that which is holy writ"
Book of Mormon 1 Nephi 5:19
"these plates of brass should never perish; neither should they be dimmed any more by time"

Lehi's unconditional permanence-prophecy and Alma's conditional brightness-promise read as the same standing doctrine of the plates' imperishability, stated generations apart in wholly different words. NO shared phrasing; no citation by Alma of Lehi. The conditional-vs-unconditional asymmetry ('if they are kept' vs 'never perish') is the natural counter-reading.

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The Brass Plates