<P> The `` lost 116 pages '' were the original manuscript pages of what Joseph Smith , 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 said was an abridgment taken from the Plates of Nephi . </P>
<P> The `` lost 116 pages '' were the original manuscript pages of what Joseph Smith , 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 said was an abridgment taken from the Plates of Nephi . </P>
who lost the 116 pages of the book of mormon
who lost the 116 pages of the book of mormon
Smith 's scribe Martin Harris
Smith 's scribe Martin Harris