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Tonight's episode, The Mystery of the Nephite Kings.

This episode will be released at Radio Free Mormon,

as well as at Mormon Sunday School. It has to do with my continuing

study of the small plates of the Book of Mormon. Now these small plates comprise the beginning of the Book of Mormon all the way up to the beginning of the Book of Mosiah.

Here is the title slide. It is lesson 16 in Mormon Sunday school by the way the tagline is

where you learn stuff you're never gonna hear about in regular Sunday school once

again mystery of the Nephite King's lesson number 16 but first let's do a recap and it's going to be a brief recap because we've been doing quite a study here on these small plates and learned a lot of interesting things.

First off, going back to lesson 13,

we covered the fact that the Book of Mormon appears

to describe a society much larger

than it would take to do the things described in the Book of Mormon,

whether it's warfare or building a temple or all sorts of things that they did in the early stages of

Nephite history in the first couple of generations of Nephite

history when the Book of Mormon describes a much smaller group of Nephites than would be necessary

in order to conduct all of these large scale.

Projects, lesson number 14 covered the fact that the Book of Mormon authors

for no discernible reason

appeared to be at least as anxious as Joseph Smith regarding making sure the reader knows there is a second set of plates, sometimes called the small plates of Nephi, and those small plates of Nephi were specifically for the purpose of recording the more spiritual things.

And finally in the last lesson lesson, lesson number 15, the seven generations from Jacob to Mosiah the second appear to be too

few to account for the length of time that passed.

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