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In his book Problems in Mormon Text, LaMar Petersen notes that Joseph Smith wrote the angel’s name as Nephi, not Moroni.

LaMar Petersen, Problems in Mormon Text (Salt Lake City, UT: UTLM, 1957), 3.

The 1851 edition of The Pearl of Great Price also identifies the angel as Nephi.

Pearl of Great Price (Salt Lake City, UT: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1851), 41.