The Nephites were given the Jaredite history as a witness and warning to them. Their record was recorded on gold plates and translated by a seer using the Urim and Thummim. Why did Mormon include this translation story in the book of Mosiah? Did Mormon foreshadow the coming forth of the Book of Mormon, in the Book of Mormon?

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Both the Nephite plates and the Jaredite plates contain a witness and a warning of fallen civilizations that formerly inhabiting the Americas. Both records tell of people led out from the wicked, and growing into chosen and righteous nations prospered as few have in history. After receiving these great blessings of the Lord, each nation degenerated.

Both records were recorded upon golden plates and was translated by a seer through the gift and power of God using the Urim and Thummim. Witness artifacts of both records included breastplates, swords, and the plates themselves. The records were not written for the people of whom it was an account and they conclude describing the entire destruction of these former Christian inhabitants of America in a bloody confrontation near the Hill Cumorah.

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