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Words of Mormon 1:9 · Mosiah 8:1

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Book of Mormon Words of Mormon 1:9
"And now I, Mormon, proceed to finish out my record, which I take from the plates of Nephi"
Book of Mormon Mosiah 8:1
"for he spake many things unto them and only a few of them have I written in this book"

The book of Mosiah never names its narrator; 'Mormon' occurs in Mosiah only as a place-name. The identification of the 'I… this book' of 8:1 (and the narrator-I at 23:23, 27:11, 28:9, 28:20) with Mormon rests on sequence: WoM 1:3 ('abridgment from the plates of Nephi, down to the reign of this king Benjamin') + 1:9's announced continuation, with Mosiah standing next and opening in Benjamin's reign. No verse closes the loop. Offered to weigh, hedged; the wiki refers to 'the narrator' throughout.

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