Alma 36:22 · 1 Nephi 1:8
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The longest verbatim quotation of the small-plates text by a later speaker in the corpus: 20 consecutive identical words ('God sitting upon his throne, surrounded with numberless concourses of angels in the attitude of singing and praising their God'), the sole in-run divergence being a comma after 'angels' in Alma 36:22 absent from 1 Nephi 1:8. Alma quotes with explicit attribution ('even as our father Lehi saw') while holding the plates he is about to confer (Alma 37:1-4) - direct internal evidence the small-plates text circulated and was known verbatim in his generation. What that implies beyond circulation is not asserted.