Authors or Sources of the Original Ancient Records |
Records That Made Up the Plates |
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Nephi1, Jacob, Enos, Jarom, Omni, and others |
Small plates of Nephi (spiritual records; about 600 B.C. to 130 B.C.) |
Mormon |
Words of Mormon (connects the small plates and the abridgment of the large plates of Nephi; see verses 1–18) |
Brass plates of Laban (see 1 Nephi 5:10–14) |
Large plates of Nephi (temporal records and religious history; about 130 B.C. to A.D. 321) |
Zeniff |
Lehi (see Mosiah 6:3); Alma the Younger, Sons of Mosiah, Helaman2, Pahoran, Captain Moroni, Nephi3, Nephi4 |
Mormon |
Records of Mormon (about A.D. 345 to A.D. 385) |
Jaredite records on 24 plates, including the writings of Ether (see Ether 1:1–5) |
Book of Ether, edited Jaredite records (about 2400 B.C. to 600 B.C.) |
Moroni |
Records of Moroni (see Mormon 9:30–37; about A.D. 385 to A.D. 421) |
Golden Plates Given to the Prophet Joseph Smith by the Angel Moroni on September 22, 1827 |
The Book of Mormon |
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Plates of Mormon (records compiled and abridged by Mormon and Moroni) |
Title Page* 1 Nephi 2 Nephi Jacob Enos Jarom Omni Words of Mormon Mosiah Alma Helaman 3 Nephi 4 Nephi Mormon Ether Moroni |
Information in this chart was compiled from the preface and the text in the Book of Mormon.
*Joseph Smith explained, "The title-page of the Book of Mormon is a literal translation, taken from the very last leaf, on the left hand side of the collection or book of plates" (History of the Church, 1:71).