The entire chapter of 1 Nephi 6 is dedicated to Nephi ‘informing’ the reader that Lehi’s writings are not included with his. This appears to be a poorly designed attempt by Joseph Smith to redirect attention to the ‘Book of Lehi,’ supposedly the 116 pages lost by Martin Harris. Smith’s backpedaling is so apparent that it becomes a glaring embarrassment:

“And now i nephi do not give the genealogy of my fathers in this part of my record neither at any time shall i give it After uppon these plates which i am writing for it is given in the record which has bee kept by my father Wherefore i do not write it in this work for it sofiseth me to say that we are a desendant of joseph and it Mattereth not to me that i am particular to give a full account of all the things of my father for they can not be ritten uppon these plates for i desire the room that i may write of the things of god”

1 Nephi 6:1-3, The Handwritten Book of Mormon (West Valley City, UT: Dan Wees, September 2017), 18.

Would the apologist argue that Nephi foresaw the pages being lost?