Chapter 9 reviews the fact that there was a lot of history and as well as spiritual matters that Nephi wanted to capture and was commanded to capture. The question I had as I read these verses was around where the plates of Lehi, or 116 pages of manuscript fit into what Nephi recorded. I think and am not quite sure yet that the plates of Lehi were separate from the Large and Small Plates of Nephi. With the loss of the manuscript we do not get the record of Lehi. But we do get the other plates of nephi. The small plates take us through Omni. An abridgment of the Large Pates takes us from Mosiah through Mormon.
In looking for more information around the plates of Lehi, and I didn't look very long, I found at talk by E. Hales that I think will be worth further review for a related topic. In skimming his talk it seemed that he was say that the Book of Mormon had many examples of what happens when people value the scriptures versus situations where they didn't. The talk is called: Holy Scriptures: The Power of God unto Our Salvation. I love the scriptures and am grateful for them in my life, I am working towards being a better student of them.
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