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    which Smith translated the Book of Mormon. The most significant witnesses were the Three Witnesses and the Eight Witnesses, all of whom allowed their names...
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    Three are part of twelve Book of Mormon witnesses, who also include Smith and the Eight Witnesses. The joint statement of the Three Witnesses—Oliver Cowdery...
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    source material for the Book of Mormon. An earlier group of witnesses who said they had seen the plates were called the Three Witnesses. Wikisource has original...
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    Three Witnesses Eight Witnesses Angel Moroni Anthon Transcript Reformed Egyptian Spalding–Rigdon theory of Book of Mormon authorship The Book of Mormon and...
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    The Book of Mormon is a book, or subdivision, of the larger Book of Mormon. This "inner" book has nine chapters. According to the text, the first seven...
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    Adherents to the Latter Day Saint movement view the Book of Mormon as a work of divinely inspired scripture, which was written by ancient prophets in...
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    Book of Mormon, a scripture of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and other Latter Day Saint groups. According to the Book of...
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    golden plates which the Book of Mormon was written on; they are known as the Three Witnesses and the Eight Witnesses.. Eleven witnesses altogether confirm...
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    In the Book of Mormon, the Liahona (/ˌliːəˈhoʊnə/) is described as a brass ball with two spindles, one of which directs where Lehi and his companions should...
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    The Book of Mormon is a religious text of the Latter Day Saint movement, first published in 1830 by Joseph Smith as The Book of Mormon: An Account Written...
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    historicity of the Book of Mormon is the historical actuality of persons and events that are written in it, meaning the quality of it being part of history...
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    Golden plates (category History of the Latter Day Saint movement)
    bible) are the source from which Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon, a sacred text of the faith. Some accounts from people who reported handling...
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    David Whitmer (category Book of Mormon witnesses)
    1888) was an early leader of the Latter Day Saint Movement and one of the Three Witnesses to the gold plates of the Book of Mormon. Whitmer later distanced...
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    most adherents of the Latter Day Saint movement, the Book of Mormon is a 19th-century translation of a record of ancient inhabitants of the American continent...
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    financially guaranteed the first printing of the Book of Mormon and also served as one of Three Witnesses who testified that they had seen the golden...
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    rooted in its canonized scriptures the Book of Mormon and Book of Abraham. In the Book of Mormon the Nephites, a group of ancient Americans who were descended...
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    as the Three Witnesses. Their testimony has subsequently been published in nearly every edition of the Book of Mormon. When the Church of Christ was organized...
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    founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. Publishing the Book of Mormon at the age of 24, Smith attracted tens of thousands of followers...
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    The Spalding–Rigdon theory of Book of Mormon authorship is the theory that the Book of Mormon was partly plagiarized from an unpublished manuscript by...
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  • Bountiful is the name of two places described in the Book of Mormon, a religious text dictated in 1829 by Joseph Smith. The first location is set in the...
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    The Book of Mormon Movie, Volume 1: The Journey is a 2003 American adventure drama film directed by Gary Rogers and written by Rogers and Craig Clyde....
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    In the Book of Mormon, Ishmael1 (/ˈɪʃməl, -mɛl/) is the righteous friend of the prophet Lehi in Jerusalem. When Lehi takes his family into the wilderness...
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    The Book of Mormon, a work of scripture of the Latter Day Saint movement, is asserted by both itself and Joseph Smith, the founder of the movement, to...
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    Lucy Harris (category Critics of Mormonism)
    1792 – 1836) was the wife of Martin Harris, and an early skeptic of Joseph Smith's claim that he translated the Book of Mormon from golden plates. Lucy...
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    (/əˈmæləkaɪts/), in the Book of Mormon, are a group of dissenters from the Nephites around 90 B.C. They are after the order of Nehor and therefore believe...
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    There are a number of anachronistic words and phrases in the Book of Mormon—their existence in the text contradicts known linguistic patterns or archaeological...
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    This list is intended as a compendium of individuals mentioned in the Book of Mormon. Contents:  Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W...
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    in the Book of Mormon as having settled in the ancient Americas. According to the Book of Mormon, the prophet Mormon engraved an abridgement of his people's...
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    The Book of Mormon monetary system is part of the setting of the Book of Mormon. It is the system of economic exchange used by the narrative's Nephites...
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    The relationship between Archaeology and the Book of Mormon is based on the claims made by the Book of Mormon that the ancient Americas were populated by...
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