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This is Radio Free Mormon.

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Tonight's episode, a thorny problem for the book of Mormon and missing generations on the small plates of Nephi.

Now, if that doesn't want your appetite for a great show, I don't know what will, but I promise you, this is going to be exciting stuff that we're talking about tonight.

It once again has to do with that area in the book of

Mormon, that connective tissue between Jacob, the book of Jacob and the book of Mosiah. And we know

from primary that those books are Jacob, Enos, Jerem, Omni. And there's a host of authors who write very little in that time period. It's almost as if the

author of the Book of Mormon was trying to connect and catch up from Jacob all the way up to

Mosiah, where he had left off writing or dictating. Remember, once again, the Book of Mormon, as we have it today, was first

translated from the beginning of the book down to the beginning of the Book of Mosiah. That was

the 116 pages that were thereafter lost. And as we discussed last week, when Joseph Smith came

back to starting with a dictation of the Book of Mormon again,

he started where he left off at the beginning of Mosiah, went all the way to the end of the

Book of Mormon and Moronai, then came back and started with First Nephi chapter one, verse one,

and worked his way up to where he had left off with Mosiah chapter one.

And that is why this area, this connective tissue between Jacob and Mosiah 1, is so interesting

frequently when I've read the Book of Mormon before.

I have not spent a lot of time analyzing it.

But I have spent some time this time.

As I mentioned in the last episode, we had been up through

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