“Why did Nephi only summarize Zenos and Zenock, but chose to copy long passages of Isaiah word for word? Didn’t he know that Isaiah’s words would be well-preserved in the modern Bible, but Zenos and Zenock would not?”

1 Nephi 19:23-24, Book of Mormon (Salt Lake City, UT: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, September 2008), 46.

Richard Packham, packham.n4m.org/brassplates.htm