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Cumorah

Cumorah () is a drumlin in Manchester, New York, United States, where Joseph Smith said he found a set of golden plates which he also said he translated into English and published as the Book of Mormon. In the text of the Book of Mormon, "Cumorah" is a hill located in a land of the same name, which

is "a land of many waters, rivers and fountains". In this hill, a Book of Mormon figure, Mormon, deposited a number of metal plates containing the record of his nation of Nephites, just prior to their final battle with the Lamanites in which at least 230,000 people were killed. Early Latter Day Saints believed that the Cumorah in New York was the same Cumorah described in the Book of Mormon as taught by Assistant President of the Church Oliver Cowdery in a formal letter (Letter VII) he published in the July 1835 Messenger and Advocate and reprinted several times at the direction of Joseph Smith. Joseph Smith explained that Moroni identified the hill as Cumorah before Joseph found the plates (Doctrine and Covenants 128:20), which was corroborated by other historical sources. In the early 20th century, scholars from the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS Church) and...

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