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=== [[The Book of Mormon (literature)|The Book of Mormon]] ===
[[The Book of Mormon (literature)|The Book of Mormon]] is a religious text that Joseph Smith claimed to have translated "by the gift and power of God" from an ancient record engraved on gold (or gold'''en''') plates. More information is available in its work page.
The text centres on one family who were warned by God to leave Jerusalem shortly before the [[W:Babylonian captivity|Babylonian captivity]] and ended up somewhere in the Americas. Over the course of fifteen books, it describes them, their descendants, and a couple of other groups, always focussing on the spiritual and ecclesiastical side of their history. The stated purpose of the book is to convert people to Christianity, and the subtitle "Another Testament of Jesus Christ" has been added to most editions since 1982.
The church offers the book as tangible proof that Joseph Smith, Jr. was a prophet of God, since the story of its finding and translation relies pretty heavily on divine intervention, and encourages everyone to read it and ask God to reveal to them whether it is true.
=== The Doctrine and Covenants ===
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