Graphic Novel · Scene 3 of 18

Mormon compares two groups of metal records.
Artwork is an interpretation of the Book of Mormon. Text is quoted from the archived English witness, not the People’s Open Bible. Later narrator’s abridgment work; relative sizes, metal, binding and furnishings are interpretive, not exact archive inventory or reconstructed written words.

Historical Library · Latter-day Saint movement
The Book of Mormon

Artwork is an interpretation of the Book of Mormon. Text is quoted from the archived English witness, not the People’s Open Bible.

Source and translation notes

·

    Words of Mormon 1:3

    An abridgment from the plates

    The Small Plates and the Return to Peace · Words of Mormon 1

    Open this scene in the reader →

    3And now, I speak somewhat concerning that which I have written; for after I had made an abridgment from the plates of Nephi, down to the reign of this king Benjamin, of whom Amaleki spake, I searched among the records which had been delivered into my hands, and I found these plates, which contained this small account of the prophets, from Jacob down to the reign of this king Benjamin, and also many of the words of Nephi.

    Step through the story beside the Scripture itself. About the People’s Open Bible