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When Joseph Smith commenced to translate the Book of Mormon in the spring of 1828,
Martin Harris assisted him as his scribe. After the Prophet had translated 116 pages known as
the Book of Lehi, Harris was permitted to take the manuscript to his home in Palmyra, New York
and it was lost. Later the Prophet was told in a revelation to translate the Small Plates of Nephi,
which covered the same period of Nephite history, to take the place of the lost manuscript. The
revelation instructing him to do this is now found in Doctrine and Covenants 10.