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Mosiah 1:5 · 1 Nephi 5:19

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Book of Mormon Mosiah 1:5
"were it not for these things, which have been kept and preserved by the hand of God, that we might read and understand of his mysteries, and have his commandments always before our eyes"
Book of Mormon 1 Nephi 5:19
"he said that these plates of brass should never perish; neither should they be dimmed any more by time"

Prophecy read as standing fact ~5 centuries on: Lehi prophesies the plates never perish nor dim; Benjamin describes them kept, preserved, legible, 'always before our eyes'. Hedged interpretive: no shared phrasing ('never perish' vs 'kept and preserved'), and Benjamin nowhere cites Lehi's prophecy - the fulfillment framing is the reader's. near end deliberately Mosiah 1:5 (clearly brass plates) NOT 1:6's 'we have them before our eyes', whose antecedent is ambiguous (nearest = plates of Nephi, possibly both sets) - flagged on page.

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