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A family crosses the sea, and generations wrestle with faith, power, and promises they struggle to keep.
The Book of Mormon is a foundational scripture of the Latter-day Saints faith, first published in 1830. According to the text, prophets in the Americas preserve a record of their people across generations. First Nephi begins with Lehi warning Jerusalem and a family leaving for a new land, where their descendants build cities, make covenants, and face conflict.
The books include First and Second Nephi, Mosiah, Alma, Helaman, Ether, and Moroni. Their stories follow rulers, prophets, missionaries, and record keepers through warnings, quarrels, and war. Joseph Smith Jr. said the work came from an ancient record on metal plates. Latter-day Saints read it alongside the Bible as a second witness for Jesus Christ.
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- A family at sea Follow Lehi’s family from Jerusalem toward a new land and an uncertain future.
- A king addresses his people Picture King Benjamin speaking from a tower above families gathered in tents.
- Faith as a seed Explore Alma’s teachings as the book turns from public power to questions of faith.
- Prosperity and its dangers Trace Helaman’s account of a people whose returning prosperity brings renewed pride.
- Keepers of the record Meet Mormon, the prophet who, according to the text, gathers and shortens earlier records.
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For readers who want to understand a major American scripture through curiosity, the study of religion, or friendship with a Latter-day Saint. For anyone drawn to stories of prophets, family journeys, faith, pride and humility.
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- A library of record keepers
- A family leaves Jerusalem for a promised land
- Nephi, Jacob and the joy of the fall
- Kings, prophets and the covenant of baptism
- Alma, missionaries and a seed of faith
- Warnings, signs and a visit to Bountiful
- Mormon, the Jaredites and Moroni's promise
- How the book has been read and contested
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El Libro de Mormón
by José Smith, hijo; Iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Últimos Días · 1830
A family leaves Jerusalem and crosses the sea in a scripture that explores faith, pride and the freedom to choose.
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The Book of Mormon is a volume of scripture first published in 1830 in Palmyra, New York. Joseph Smith Jr. brought it out at the age of twenty four.
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The Book of Mormon comes with an origin story that is part of the book's identity. Joseph Smith said that as a teenager in western New York he was visited by an angel named Moroni. The angel told him of a record engraved on plates of gold, buried in a hill near his home. Smith said he was allowed to take the plates in 1827 and to translate them.
The work of translation was done in the spring and early summer of 1829, mostly with a schoolteacher named Oliver Cowdery writing as Smith spoke. Smith described the process as a gift from God. He used instruments he called the Urim and Thummim, and also a seer stone. Earlier, a farmer named Martin Harris had acted as a scribe and helped pay for printing, and he lost an early portion of the manuscript.
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What is the Book of Mormon about?
It tells of a family led out of Jerusalem around 600 years before Christ who settle in the Americas. Their descendants keep records, struggle with pride and war, and are visited by the risen Christ.
Who wrote the Book of Mormon?
Joseph Smith published it in 1830 and said he translated it from ancient plates. The book names many ancient authors, mainly Nephi, Alma, Mormon and Moroni. Critics regard Smith as its author.
Why is it called the Book of Mormon?
It is named for Mormon, a prophet and military leader in the book who shortened centuries of records into one account. His son Moroni finished the work and hid the plates.
The author
Joseph Smith Jr.
1805–1844 · American religious leader and writer
Joseph Smith Jr. (1805–1844) was an American religious leader who founded the Latter Day Saint movement in 1830. He published the Book of Mormon that year. Born in Vermont, he later lived in New York, Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois. He was killed in Carthage, Illinois, in 1844.
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