8/9/2023 0 Comments Book of mormon manuscript![]() Martin Harris served as his principal scribe and may have been assisted by Emma Smith or her brother Reuben Hale. Joseph translated the book of Lehi from mid-April to mid-June 1828. Joseph Smith, “ History, circa 1841, fair copy,” 13–14, Lucy Mack Smith, “ Lucy Mack Smith, History, 1844–1845,” book 6, page 10–book 7, page 7,. Related Topics: Book of Mormon Translation Minson, “ When Pages Collide: Dissecting the Words of Mormon,” BYU Studies Quarterly, vol. 51, no. 4 (2012), 120–36. S. Kent Brown, “ Lehi’s Personal Record: Quest for a Missing Source,” BYU Studies, vol. 24, no. 1 (Winter 1984), 19–42. By referring or linking you to these resources, we do not endorse or guarantee the content or the views of the authors. The following publications provide further information about this topic. Matthew McBride, “ The Contributions of Martin Harris: D&C 3, 5, 10, 17, 19,” in Matthew McBride and James Goldberg, eds., Revelations in Context: The Stories behind the Sections of the Doctrine and Covenants (Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2016), 1–9. No one ever came forward with the lost manuscript. Joseph worried so much about the possibility of an altered manuscript that in the preface of the Book of Mormon, he warned conspirators not to oppose God’s work. 4 The revelation also forbade Joseph from retranslating the book of Lehi and warned him of adversaries possessing the lost manuscript who might attempt to manipulate the text and then discredit the published version of the Book of Mormon. Joseph learned that he should translate the plates of Nephi until he reached the place where the lost manuscript had ended. The revelation (see Doctrine and Covenants 10) said the plates of Nephi contained an account similar to the book of Lehi but with a greater focus on the spiritual history of Lehi’s family. Later, when he and his new scribe, Oliver Cowdery, had nearly reached the end of the record, Joseph asked for revelation about whether to retranslate the lost pages. Joseph did not resume translating for about nine months. As a result, when Joseph learned that Harris had lost the manuscript, Joseph thought he had failed in his divine commission. 3Īt the time the manuscript disappeared, Joseph Smith and Martin Harris did not know of Nephi’s abridgment. Others speculate the lost manuscript contained not only the book of Lehi but also material written by others, perhaps Mormon or someone who lived sometime between Lehi and King Benjamin. 2 According to some scholars, Nephi’s abridgment comprises the early chapters of the Book of Mormon. Nephi had abridged Lehi’s record before composing his own history. Lehi’s son Nephi explained that this record contained accounts of Lehi’s dreams, visions, prophecies, and teachings to his children. Like much of the Book of Mormon, the record of Lehi was an abridgment by the prophet Mormon of what Joseph called the plates of Lehi. Joseph wrote that the lost pages contained the book of Lehi. ![]() What little is known of the lost manuscript’s contents comes from Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon prophet Nephi. ![]()
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