Beliefs & Doctrine

Brass Plates

  1. Within the Book of Mormon, the ancient record — including writings of Moses and the prophets — that Nephi obtained from Laban.

The plates of brass held scripture much like the Old Testament, along with a genealogy of Lehi's family. Nephi being commanded to obtain them from Laban before his family left Jerusalem is one of the Book of Mormon's most famous stories.

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