Yes, you are right. I was not very clear. The Small Plates of Nephi did not include Lehi's writings, just what Nephi restated of Lehi's life for a wise purpose, so there would have been nothing in those plates to "swap" out with for the abridement he made of Lehi's writings. Mormon swapped out the Small Plates of Nephi for his abridgement of the same time period, which did not include Lehi. So, yes, he inserted the Small Plates into his abridgement, between Lehi and King Benjamin, and removed his abridgement of the same events. As I showed in the text, he did abridge all the Large Plates, so if he did not pull out his abridement of the Large Plates for what he was replacing them with, then that time perion, from Nephi to Amaleki, would have been duplicated in the Book of Mormon.
Sorry for that confusion.
What "everything" in the Book of Mormon points to the hill of the last battle and hill where the plates were buried points to them not being the same?
Do you think Mormon burid the plates in the hill Cumorah before that last battle? Clearly he did. So, how did they get from one Cumorah to the other? If you believe Moroni carried them then you need to see a complete list of everything that was in the box.
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