[Utah Binger]

JS did NOT sit at a table, flipping the golden plates over, writing down the Reformed Egyptian® into 1611 English as he went; but stuffed his face into a HAT, and dictated words to one of his his stenographers, who wrote the words down.

Couldn't say it better than that!

[nando9]

And?

Which is more impressive, do you think? Dictating a 500+ page book, or translating it while looking at some ancient documents?

By the by, the urim and thummim were part of old testament rituals — more hocus pocus?

[Elsie]

15 And it came to pass that there were ten more who did fall by the sword, with their ten thousand each; yea, even all my people, save it were those twenty and four who were with me, and also a few who had escaped into the south countries, and a few who had deserted over unto the Lamanites, had fallen; and their flesh, and bones, and blood lay upon the face of the earth, being left by the hands of those who slew them to molder upon the land, and to crumble and to return to their mother earth.

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