Plates

• Explanation of Book of Mormon…Explains the four plates used (1) Plates of Nephi; (2) Plates of Mormon; (3) Plates of Ether; (4) Plates of Brass and their relation to each other
• Book of Mormon Title Page…Plates were hidden so that they wouldn’t be destroyed
• Mosiah 17: 4…Alma, the high priest, wrote the words of Abinadi
• 4 Nephi 1: 19…Nephi gives plates of Nephi to his son Amos
• 4 Nephi 1: 21…Amos gives P. of Nephi to his son Amos
• 4 Nephi 1: 47…Amos gives P. of Nephi to his brother Ammaron
• 4 Nephi 1: 48-49…Ammaron buries plates
• Mormon 1: 2-5…Mormon told by Ammaron where to find the P.
• Mormon 2: 17…Mormon takes P. from the earth
• Mormon 6: 6…Mormon buries all plates in Hill Cumorah, except for the ones to Moroni
• Mormon 8: 1…Moroni receives them from Mormon
• Mormon 8: 4…Plates in the earth
• Psalms 85: 11…Plates in the earth
• Joseph Smith History 1: 34…Plates in the earth
• Isaiah 29: 4…Plates in the earth

• Mormon 8: 14…The Plates will never be sold for $
• Mormon 9: 32-33…Plates written in reformed Egyptian (small)
• Mormon 9: 34…Lord will provide a way to translate Plates
• Ether 12: 23-25…Prophets not good writers b/c Plates & language are difficult.  Gentiles will make fun of them
• Mormon 8: 17…Prophets not good writers b/c Plates & language are difficult.  Gentiles will make fun of them
• Mormon 9: 33…Prophets not good writers b/c Plates & language are difficult.  Gentiles will make fun of them
• Jacob 1: 1-2, 4…Small plates have most precious things
• Jacob 1: 2-3…History of people – other plates
• Jacob 4: 1…Very difficult to write on plates
• Mosiah 8: 8-9…How the 24 plates were found.  Book of Ether was written from these plates(Ether 1: 1-2)
• Omni 1: 25… And it came to pass that I began to be old; and, having no seed, and knowing king Benjamin to be a just man before the Lord, wherefore, I shall deliver up these plates unto him, exhorting all men to come unto God, the Holy One of Israel, and believe in prophesying, and in revelations, and in the ministering of angels, and in the gift of speaking with tongues, and in the gift of interpreting languages, and in all things which are good; for there is nothing which is good save it comes from the Lord: and that which is evil cometh from the devil.
• Jarom 1:14…  And I, Jarom, do not write more, for the plates are small. But behold, my brethren, ye can go to the other plates of Nephi; for behold, upon them the records of our wars are engraven, according to the writings of the kings, or those which they caused to be written.
• Jacob 4: 2-4… 2 But whatsoever things we write upon anything save it be upon plates must perish and vanish away; but we can write a few words upon plates, which will give our children, and also our beloved brethren, a small degree of knowledge concerning us, or concerning their fathers— 3 Now in this thing we do rejoice; and we labor diligently to engraven these words upon plates, hoping that our beloved brethren and our children will receive them with thankful hearts, and look upon them that they may learn with joy and not with sorrow, neither with contempt, concerning their first parents. 4 For, for this intent have we written these things, that they may know that we knew of Christ, and we had a hope of his glory many hundred years before his coming; and not only we ourselves had a hope of his glory, but also all the holy prophets which were before us.
• Enos 1: 2…And as these plates are small, and as these things are written for the intent of the benefit of our brethren the Lamanites, wherefore, it must needs be that I write a little; but I shall not write the things of my prophesying, nor of my revelations. For what could I write more than my fathers have written? For have not they revealed the plan of salvation? I say unto you, Yea; and this sufficeth me.
• Omni 1: 9…Now I, Chemish, write what few things I write, in the same book with my brother; for behold, I saw the last which he wrote, that he wrote it with his own hand; and he wrote it in the day that he delivered them unto me. And after this manner we keep the records, for it is according to the commandments of our fathers. And I make an end.
•  Jacob 1:4... And if there were preaching which was sacred, or revelation which was great, or prophesying, that I should engraven the heads of them upon these plates, and touch upon them as much as it were possible, for Christ’s sake, and for the sake of our people.