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The Church of Christ (Temple Lot) publishes the Book of Mormon in Spanish. [citation needed] The following list provides details on officially translated versions of the Book of Mormon published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as well as translations in languages not published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The book was written by many ancient prophets by the spirit of prophecy and revelation. Their words, written on gold plates, were quoted and abridged by a prophet-historian named Mormon." Segments of the Book of Mormon provide an account of the culture, religious teachings, and civilizations of some of the groups who immigrated to the New World.
The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ. Text from the LDS edition without footnotes. [270] A second edition was printed in 2006. [271] link: Signature Books: 2008 The Reader's Book of Mormon. Text from the 1830 edition with its original paragraphing and without versification.
The book is laid out so that hymns occupying two pages in the book always start on the left. Thus, a page turn is never required in the middle of a hymn. A few of the hymns have the same text, and even the same title, but are set to different hymn tunes.
According to the text of the Book of Mormon, the word Mormon stems from the Land of Mormon, [1] [better source needed] where the prophet Alma preached the gospel and baptized converts. Mormon—who was named after the land—was a 4th-century prophet–historian who compiled and abridged many records of his ancestors into the Book of Mormon. [2]
[1] According to the text, it is a comment inserted by the prophet Mormon while compiling the records which became the Book of Mormon. Textually, Words of Mormon serves to link the Small Plates of Nephi , which precede it in the current printed version, but which would have been placed after Mormon's full record in the golden plates , with the ...
According to the Book of Mormon, the prophet Mormon engraved an abridgement of his people's history on golden plates. Based on the chronology described in the book, Mormon lived during the 4th century AD. As a narrator in the text, Mormon presents himself as a redactor. He quotes and paraphrases other writers, collects and includes whole texts ...
Mormon literature is generally considered to have begun a few years before the March 1830 publication of the Book of Mormon. Since then, Mormon literature has grown to include more scripture , as well as histories , fiction , biographies, poetry , hymns , drama and other forms.