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This article identifies the various inscribed plates
(artifacts) relevant to the Latter Day Saint
movement.
The Golden Plates were a set of plates that Joseph Smith,
Jr. claimed to have discovered in 1823 which were later
translated and published as the Book of Mormon in 1830. The following
other plates are described in the Book of Mormon
The Brass Plates were a set of plates retrieved
by Nephi at the direction of his
father, Lehi
The large
plates of Nephi which are the source of the text abridged by Mormon and engraved on the Golden
Plates.
The Jaredite plates were a set of plates found
by the people of Limhi
containing the record of the Jaredites, translated by King Mosiah, and abridged by Moroni as the Book of Ether which
was engraved upon the Golden Plates.
The Kinderhook plates were a set of
plates discovered in 1843 which were in fact a forgery created by
three men (Bridge Whitten, Robert Wiley, and Wilburn Fugate).
The Voree Plates (sometimes called the "Record
of Rajah Manchou of Vorito" or the "Voree Record") were a set of
plates discovered and later translated by James J. Strang in 1845.