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THE FIRST BOOK OF NEPHI
HIS REIGN AND MINISTRY
CHAPTER 9
  3 Nevertheless, I have received a commandment of the Lord that I should make these plates, for the special apurpose that there should be an account engraven of the bministry of my people.

Footnotes
3a
D&C 3: 19.
  19 And for this very apurpose are these bplates cpreserved, which contain these records—that the dpromises of the Lord might be fulfilled, which he made to his epeople;
b
1 Ne. 6: 3.
  3 And it mattereth not to me that I am particular to give a full account of all the things of my father, for they cannot be written upon athese plates, for I desire the room that I may write of the things of God.