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| − | I know that the plates have been translated by the gift and power of God, for his voice declared it unto us....And as many of the plates as Joseph Smith translated I handled with my hands, plate after plate....I should think they were so long, or about eight inches, and about so thick, or about four inches.<ref>Statement of David B. Dille, Sept. 15, 1853, deposted in ''Millennial Star Office'', cited in ''Millennial Star'' 21 (1859):545. Cited in {{Book:Anderson:Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses|start=113}} | + | I know that the plates have been translated by the gift and power of God, for his voice declared it unto us....And as many of the plates as Joseph Smith translated I handled with my hands, plate after plate....I should think they were so long, or about eight inches, and about so thick, or about four inches.<ref>Statement of David B. Dille, Sept. 15, 1853, deposted in ''Millennial Star Office'', cited in ''Millennial Star'' 21 (1859):545. Cited in {{Book:Anderson:Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses|start=113}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 22:08, 9 September 2014
Martin Harris (1855): "As many of the plates as Joseph Smith translated I handled with my hands"
Parent page: Book of Mormon/Witnesses/Three witnesses
Martin Harris (1855): "As many of the plates as Joseph Smith translated I handled with my hands"
I know that the plates have been translated by the gift and power of God, for his voice declared it unto us....And as many of the plates as Joseph Smith translated I handled with my hands, plate after plate....I should think they were so long, or about eight inches, and about so thick, or about four inches.[1]
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- ↑ Statement of David B. Dille, Sept. 15, 1853, deposted in Millennial Star Office, cited in Millennial Star 21 (1859):545. Cited in Richard Lloyd Anderson, Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1981), 113. ISBN 0877478465.