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Mormon 2:15
KnoWhy #387
December 5, 2017
Why Doesn’t God Punish Us the Moment We Sin?
Mormon Abridging the Plates by Tom Lovell
Mormon 2:18
KnoWhy #227
November 9, 2016
Why Did Mormon Write So Little about His Own Time Period?
Mormon and Ammaron by James Fullmer
Mormon 3:1
KnoWhy #228
November 10, 2016
Why is the 10-Year Peace Treaty Important?
Lamanites sacrificing a woman by Jody Livingston
Mormon 4:14
KnoWhy #229
November 11, 2016
Why Did the Lamanites Sacrifice Women and Children to Idols?
Gold Plates by Jerry Thompson
Mormon 5:14
KnoWhy #230
November 14, 2016
What Was Mormon’s Purpose in Writing the Book of Mormon?
“The Hill Cumorah” by George Anderson, colorized by Katie Payne
Mormon 6:6
KnoWhy #489
November 29, 2018
Where is the Location of the Hill Cumorah?
“The Hill Cumorah” by George Anderson via history.lds.org
Mormon 6:6
KnoWhy #453
July 26, 2018
How Are Oliver Cowdery’s Messenger and Advocate Letters to Be Understood and Used?
Siege of the Stripling Sons by Brian Hailes
Mormon 6:14
KnoWhy #231
November 15, 2016
How Could So Many People Have Died at the Battle of Cumorah?
Mormon Bids Farewell to a Once Great Nation by Arnold Friberg
Mormon 6:17
KnoWhy #232
November 16, 2016
How Did Mormon React to Seeing His People Slain?
Ultimas paginas by Jorge Cocco
Mormon 8:1
KnoWhy #233
November 17, 2016
Why Did Moroni Write So Many Farewells?
Photo by Catherine McMahon on Unsplash
Mormon 8:3
KnoWhy #393
December 26, 2017
How Can the Book of Mormon Survivors Give Us Hope?
Etruscan Gold Book, dating to 600 BC via templestudy.com
Mormon 8:16
KnoWhy #407
February 13, 2018
Are There Other Ancient Records Like the Book of Mormon?
Seeking Christ. Image via Gospel Media Library.
Mormon 9:24
KnoWhy #522
June 26, 2019
Why Does Part of the Long Ending of Mark Show Up in the Book of Mormon?
Alphabet by Book of Mormon Central
Mormon 9:27
KnoWhy #234
November 18, 2016
Why Did Moroni Conclude His Father’s Record with 22 Commands?
Replica of the gold plates with reformed Egyptian characters via Church News
Mormon 9:32
KnoWhy #513
May 2, 2019
Why Did Mormon and Moroni Write in Reformed Egyptian?
Aztec Calendar. Photo by Don Bayley.
Mormon 9:32–34
KnoWhy #583
November 3, 2020
What Do We Know About Nephite Language?
The Sacred Grove by Greg Olsen
Mormon 9:36
KnoWhy #281
March 1, 2017
Why is the Book of Mormon So Important to the Restoration?
Olmec Heads by Book of Mormon Central
Ether 1:18
KnoWhy #235
November 21, 2016
Why Does the Book of Ether Begin with Such a Long Genealogy?
Adobe Stock Image
Ether 2:3
KnoWhy #236
November 22, 2016
Where Does the Word “Deseret” Come From?
“Jonah Cast on Shore by the Fish” by Antonius Wierix II via The Met Collection
Ether 3:2
KnoWhy #526
July 26, 2019
How Were Jonah and the Brother of Jared Able to Find Comfort?
I Knew Not, by Marcus Moore, submitted to the 2017 Book of Mormon Central Art Contest.
Ether 3:15
KnoWhy #584
November 10, 2020
Why Did Jesus Say, “Never Have I Showed Myself unto Man”?
Brother of Jared Sees the Finger of the Lord by Robert T. Barrett
Ether 3:20
KnoWhy #237
November 23, 2016
Why Did Moroni Use Temple Imagery While Telling the Brother of Jared Story?
Replica made by David A. Baird, photo by Daniel Smith
Ether 4:5
KnoWhy #409
February 20, 2018
Is There Evidence That Joseph Smith Possessed a Urim and Thummim and Breastplate?
Mormon and Moroni with the Plates by Joseph Brickey
Ether 4:19
KnoWhy #239
November 25, 2016
Why Do So Many of Mormon’s Teachings Appear in Ether 4 and 5?
The Three Witnesses of the Book of Mormon Compilation retouching and colorization by Bryce M Haymond
Ether 5:4
KnoWhy #267
January 27, 2017
Why Were Three Key Witnesses Chosen to Testify of the Book of Mormon?
The Brother of Jared Sees the Finger of the Lord by Arnold Friberg
Ether 6:3
KnoWhy #240
November 28, 2016
Where did the Brother of Jared Get the Idea of Shining Stones?
Image by Book of Mormon Central
Ether 6:9
KnoWhy #500
January 31, 2019
Is the Book of Mormon Musical?
Photograph of Rebecca Swain Williams
Ether 6:19
KnoWhy #612
July 27, 2021
Why Did Rebecca Swain Williams Defend the Book of Mormon?
Compilation of paintings of the book of Ether by James Fullmer
Ether 7:9
KnoWhy #241
November 29, 2016
Why Is The Book of Ether an Epic?
Adaptation of Tom Lovell Artwork
Ether 8:20
KnoWhy #242
November 30, 2016
Why Did Moroni Comment So Much Throughout Ether?
Cain and Abel by Palma il Giovane. Image via Wikimedia Commons.
Ether 8:22
KnoWhy #585
November 17, 2020
Why Are Secret Combinations Associated with Cain and Getting Gain?
Photo of an aztec double headed serpent, turqoise chest ornament by Geni
Ether 9:30
KnoWhy #243
December 1, 2016
Why Did Snakes Infest Jaredite Lands During a Famine?