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Source:Martin Harris:Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses:113:1:As many of the plates as Joseph Smith translated I handled with my hands
Martin Harris (1855): "As many of the plates as Joseph Smith translated I handled with my hands"
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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]</ref>
Notes
- ↑ 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.