The "lost 116 pages" were the original manuscript pages of what Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, said was the translation of the Book of Lehi, the first portion of the Golden plates revealed to him by an angel in 1827. These pages, which had not been copied, were lost by Smith's scribe Martin Harris during the summer of 1828 and are presumed to have been destroyed. Smith completed the Book of Mormon without retranslating the Book of Lehi, replacing it with what he claimed was an abridgment taken from the "Plates of Nephi."
Read more about Lost 116 Pages: Background, Harris As Smith's Scribe, The Manuscript Disappears, Resumed Transcription and The Witnesses, Further Reading
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