Ether 1:2 · Mosiah 8:9
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The record names its own recovery: the twenty-four plates Limhi's lost expedition brought back (Mosiah 8:9; the record-of-Limhi retelling on 'plates of ore', Mosiah 21:27) are the plates Moroni now abridges as the Book of Ether. The provenance the register has tracked since Mosiah closes at its source. Cross-links: the bone-covered land the expedition found (alma-mormon-ed-bone-land, Alma 22:30 ↔ Mosiah 8:8) and the Limhi-narrative context of Mosiah 8 (mos-limhi-wild-flock).