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TSBOM WORDS OF MORONI 8 Shaphan was the scribe secretary of king Josiah in the days when Hilkiah the high priest found under the altar of the temple in Jerusalem the ancient records of Moses1, and among them the book of the law and the sealed book itself of the things that Moses saw when he was snatched to Heavenly Zion2. (1) 2 Kings 22:8 | (2) Hebrews 12: 20-23; RLDS 1 Nephi 6:3; D&C 22:1, 22:24a-25 / LDS 1 Nephi 19:23; Moses 1:1, 40-42 9 And it came to pass in the first days of the reign of Zedekiah, for how much Lehi returned from Babylon together with Gemariah, the son of Hilkiah, when they were jointly commissioned by the king of Judah to go to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and they took with them a letter from Jeremiah the prophet destined for the elders, the priests and the prophets, and all the people exiled in the land of Sinear, that the LORD appeared to him in a pillar of fire and after that event he was no longer called by the birth name Elasah. But he became known by the name that God called him, Lehi, which corresponds to an abbreviation of Eliasib, whose meaning is, "by means of whom God restores1”. (1) Jeremiah 29:1-3