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The story of the golden plates consists of how, according to Joseph Smith and his contemporaries, the plates were found, received from the angel Moroni, translated, and returned to the angel before the publication of the Book of Mormon. Smith is the only source for a great deal of the story because much of it occurred while he was the only ...
The golden plates are a set of bound and engraved metal plates that Latter Day Saint denominations believe are the source of Joseph Smith's English translation of the Book of Mormon. Although several witnesses said they saw the plates, Smith said that he returned them to an angel after the translation was completed.
Consequently, a revelation by Smith stated that Cowdery's translation of hidden records would have to wait until after Smith had fully translated the golden plates. [70] [note 2] With Cowdery as scribe, Smith continued dictating what he said was the translation of the golden plates.
Joseph Smith said that in 1827 he was led by an angel to dig up golden plates containing a record of ancient inhabitants of the American continent, along with "spectacles", or interpreters, that the Lord had prepared to translate the record. [7] Smith also had in his possession a brown seer stone.
An 1841 engraving of Cumorah (looking south), where Joseph Smith said he was given golden plates by an angel named Moroni, on the west side, near the peak.. Cumorah (/ k ə ˈ m ɔːr ə /; [2] also known as Mormon Hill, [3] [4] [5] Gold Bible Hill, [6] [7] and Inspiration Point) [3] is a drumlin in Palmyra, New York, United States, [8] where Joseph Smith said he found a set of golden plates ...
Full-scale model of the gold plates based on Joseph Smith's description. Joseph Smith said the large plates of Nephi were continually maintained until about AD 385, when the prophet Mormon, seeing that the destruction of the Nephite nation was imminent, abridged the large plates of Nephi. This abridgement, with additions by Mormon's son, Moroni ...
Joseph Smith said that on September 22, 1827, he had recovered a set of buried golden plates in a prominent hill near his parents' farm in Manchester, New York. Martin Harris, a respectable but superstitious [ 3 ] farmer from nearby Palmyra , became an early believer and gave Smith $50 (equivalent to $1,346 in 2023) to finance the translation ...
The Golden Plates were a set of plates that Joseph Smith, Jr. had discovered in 1823 which were later translated and published as the Book of Mormon in 1830. [1] [2] The following other plates are described in the Book of Mormon. The Brass Plates were a set of plates retrieved by Nephi at the direction of his father, Lehi. They contained Jewish ...