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Question: What was the thickness of the entire volume of gold plates?
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Question: What was the thickness of the entire volume of gold plates?
The entire volume was approximately six inches thick
- "a pile about 6 inches deep." - Quoting Oliver Cowdery [1]
- "[W]hen piled one above the other, they were altogether about four inches thick."[2] — Martin Harris
- "six or eight inches thick" - Critical newspaper [3]
- "The volume was something near six inches in thickness." - Parley P. Pratt[4]
- "The volume was something near six inches in thickness" - Joseph Smith [5]
- "the whole being about six inches in thickness"[6]
Notes
- Jump up ↑ A.S., “The Golden Bible, or, Campbellism Improved,” Observer and Telegraph. Religious, Political, and Literary, Hudson, Ohio (18 November 1830): 3, quoting Cowdery. off-site
- Jump up ↑ Martin Harris interview, Tiffany's Monthly, May 1859, 165.
- Jump up ↑ “Mormonism,” Fredonia Censor (New York) (7 March 1832). Reprinted from the Franklin Democrat (Pennsylvania) circa March 1832. off-site
- Jump up ↑ Parley P. Pratt, "Discovery of an Ancient Record in America," Millennial Star 1 no. 2 (June 1840), 30–37. off-site
- Jump up ↑ Joseph Smith, "Church History [Wentworth letter]," Times and Seasons 3 no. 9 (1 Mar 1842), 706–710. off-site GospeLink off-site
- Jump up ↑ W. I. Appleby, A Dissertation of Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream... (Philadelphia: Brown, Bicking & Guilbert, 1844), 1–24. Full title