Who are other witnesses to the Book of Mormon?

Thomas R. Valletta

“Traditionally, we think of the three witnesses to the Book of Mormon as Oliver Cowdery, Martin Harris, and David Whitmer. … However, there are additional sets of three witnesses to this sacred record. Moroni declared that the ‘Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost bear record’ (Ether 5:4). Also, three branches of the House of Israel, the Jews, the Nephites, and the lost tribes, each kept a record, and each branch will eventually receive the others’ records (2 Nephi 29:12–14). These three branches of the House of Israel will also become a set of three witnesses in the latter-days” (Donaldson, “Plates of Ether and the Covenant of the Book of Mormon,” 74).

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