Plates, Metal

[The Book of Mormon mentions several records, most of which were inscribed on metal plates. The text of the Book of Mormon was inscribed on metal plates; see Plates and Records in the Book of Mormon; Book of Mormon: The Words of Mormon; and Gold Plates. In addition, the scriptural record possessed by the Book of Mormon colony that fled Jerusalem and came to the Americas under the leadership of the prophet Lehi was engraved on plates of brass; see Book of Mormon: Overview. This colony continued to prepare metal plates, which were then used to inscribe records both sacred and secular; see Economy and Technology. It is also known that a prophet named Ether inscribed on metal leaves the record of his people, the earliest Book of Mormon group to migrate to the Western Hemisphere; see Book of Mormon: Book of Ether and Jaredites. The final set of plates abridged by Mormon were seen by the Witnesses of the Book of Mormon. For information about the major writers or abridgers of these plates, see Mormon; Moroni₂; Mosiah₂; and Nephi₁.]