Three Nephites

Live Studio Audience, Part 1 (Phebe Draper Mail Bag) and Part 2 (Politics and Polygamy)

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LPolitics, Polygamy, and Persecution: Live Audience Q&A

The Translation Sequence of the Book of Mormon During the live discussion, one of the first questions concerned the order in which Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon. Aside from Words of Mormon, is there any source that explicitly states that 1 Nephi through Omni were translated last and then placed at the beginning … Read more

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon, Part 5

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Witnesses of the Book of Mormon

Translation Order of the Book of Mormon The episode opens with a question about how we know the order in which Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon. No formal statement survives in which Joseph directly explains the sequence. Instead, historians reconstruct it from contextual evidence—most importantly, the revelation now known as Doctrine and Covenants … Read more