“The plates of brass contained a record beginning with the five books of Moses down to Jeremiah—only a portion of the time period of the Old Testament and none of the New—yet the reduced version of the whole Bible—the Bible with which we are acquainted, containing both the Old and New Testaments—is ‘not so many’ as the record on the plates of brass” (Matthews, “Establishing the Truth of the Bible,” 205). The writings of Zenos (Jacob 5; Alma 33) and Zenock (Alma 33), for example, were preserved on the brass plates but did not survive in the current Bible.