“The Book of Mormon indicates that it was written using Egyptian characters, called by Moroni ‘reformed Egyptian,’ though the Nephites also knew Hebrew (see Mormon 9:32–34). Nephi made ‘a record in the language of [his] father, which consists of the learning of the Jews and the language of the Egyptians’ (1 Nephi 1:2). Evidently, the brass plates of Laban also contained Egyptian characters, for King Benjamin informed his sons that, without a knowledge of Egyptian, Lehi would not have been able to read them (see Mosiah 1:3–4)” (Ricks, “Pressing Forward with the Book of Mormon,” 2).