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‘Close to the core revelation of Mormonism’ — church produces photos of original Book of Mormon manuscript

Only 232 pages have survived, but the latest Joseph Smith Papers volume makes them available and offers a peek at how the faith’s signature scripture came to be.

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Robin Scott Jensen, co-editor of a new volume of the Joseph Smith Papers that focuses on the original manuscript of the Book of Mormon, looks at several pages from the original manuscript in the Church History Library on Jan. 19, 2022.