Joseph Smith
This is what JS said would bring a man closer to God than any other book.
What is the Book of Mormon?
The BOM was published in this year.
When was 1830?
This is how many witnesses other than JS saw an angel that showed them the plates.
What is 3?
The BOM is a history of the people of the ancient Americas that spans approximately this many years.
What is 1000 years? From 600 BC to 400 AD
This is the written purpose of the BOM according to Moroni on the title page.
What is, to convince all the world that Jesus is the Christ? (Or what is to show what great things the Lord has done or that the house of Israel may know the covenants of the Lord?)
Joseph was visited by Angel Moroni and tutored about the plates for this many years before he was actually allowed to take the plates
What is 4?
This is how many days approximately it took for Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdry to translate the 531 pages of the BOM.
What is 65?
(By comparison—The Hobbit took JRR Tolkien 2.5 years, the Bible took translators 7 years, Harry Potter Vol 1 took 6 years and Les Miserables took Victor Hugo 12 years)
This is how many witnesses were able to actually touch and then testify of the plates
What is 8?
The large plates were abridged by this Nephite historian.
Who was Mormon? (The book of Mosiah through Mormon 7 were taken from the large plates and abridged by Mormon).
This is how many languages the Book of Mormon has been translated into throughout the world.
What is 115 languages? (200 million copies have been sold)
Joseph was this old when he was first shown the plates
What is 17?
Mormon Chapter 8 to the end of the Book of Mormon was written by this Nephite
Who was Moroni?
This person wanted to show the 116 first pages of the BOM to his family and then lost them.
Who was Martin Harris?
This is the name of the ancient Hebrew literary structure discovered in the 1960s in the Book of Mormon, 130 years after it was published.
What is Chiasmus?
Discovered by John Welch as a missionary in 1967.
This is how many different authors’ voices appear in the BOM as stated by linguistic experts who have studied the text.
What is 28?
Joseph was this old when he worked on the translation
What is 21?
The 116 lost pages belonged to this book from the original BOM record
What is the Book of Lehi?
These are the names of the three witnesses.
Who were David Whitmer, Oliver Cowdery, and Martin Harris?
The plates of Ether contained the story of this ancient civilization that lived long before Nephi.
Who were the Jaredites?
A duplicate history of the lost 116 pages was written by this prophet and included in the BOM we have today.
Who is Nephi?
(See 1 Nephew 9: 5-6. He did not know why he was asked to write it a second time, but he did it anyway. This was a duplicate of the lost Book of Lehi)
This was Joseph Smith’s first scribe
(Emma. Quote: “Joseph Smith could neither write nor dictate a coherent and well-worded letter, let alone dictate a book like the Book of Mormon. I am satisfied that no man could have dictated the writing of the manuscripts unless he was inspired; for, when acting as his scribe, he would dictate to me hour after hour; and when returning after meals, or after interruptions, he could at once begin where he had left off. This was a usual thing for him to do. It would have been improbable that a learned man could do this; and, for one so ignorant and unlearned as he was, it was simply impossible.”)
This is how many chapters were in the first translation script that was delivered to the printer.
What is zero?
Note: The whole script was written without punctuation as one sentence. No chapter headings, no capitals or periods. Just straight text.
This one of the three witnesses called his family to gather while on his deathbed so he could swear that the Book of Mormon was true.
Who was David Whitmer?
(Even though he eventually left the church because of disagreements with organization and leadership, he always swore the Book of Mormon translation was true).
Name any two of the six books that make up the small plates of the BOM, which was a direct translation rather than an abridgment.
What are Nephi, Jacob, Enos, Jarom, and Omni?
This is a name of a place that is written about in the BOM and later discovered as an actual ancient historical location in Yemen.
What is Nahom?
When Lehi's family journeyed in the wilderness, they passed a place called Nahom written in Hebrew and reformed Egyptian on the plates as NHM)