15  Yea, a small record of that which hath taken place from the time that Lehi left Jerusalem, even down until the present time.

  9  But behold there are records which do contain all the proceedings of this people; and a ^cshorter but true account was given by Nephi.

  6  And it came to pass that when we had gathered in all our people in one to the land of Cumorah, behold I, Mormon, began to be old; and knowing it to be the last struggle of my people, and having been commanded of the Lord that I should not suffer the records which had been handed down by our fathers, which were sacred, to fall into the hands of the Lamanites, (for the Lamanites would destroy them) therefore I made ^cthis record out of the plates of Nephi, and hid up in the hill Cumorah all the records which had been entrusted to me by the hand of the Lord, save it were these few plates which I gave unto my son Moroni.