Words of Mormon

Mormon explains that he abridged the Large Plates of Nephi including Lehi’s writings. Then he tells us he attached the Small Plates of Nephi to his plates without any abridgement.  He did this “for a wise purpose.”  We know that the translation of the abridgment (116 pages) of the Book of Lehi was lost by Martin Harris.  But with the inclusion by Mormon of the Small Plates, we get the record of Lehi and his family as they flee Jerusalem and settle in the New World (1^st and 2^nd Books of Nephi, Jacob, Enos, Jarom, Omni).  As we begin The Book of Mosiah, we are starting the abridgment by Mormon of the Large Plates—minus the Book of Lehi which was lost by Martin Harris.