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Facts about the plates:​

• Laban had the "record of the Jews" and a genealogy of Lehi's (and Laban's) forefathers (1Ne 5:16, 1 Ne 3:3)

• The record was engraved on plates made of brass (1 Ne 3:3)

• Laban kept the plates at his house (1 Ne 3:4)

• Laban was the keeper of the records because he was a descendant of Joseph (1 Ne 5:16)

• Plates contained "the language of our fathers" (1 Ne 3:19)

• Plates were written in Egyptian (Mosiah 1:4)

• Plates contained all the words of the prophets down to Lehi's time (1 Ne 3:20, 1 Ne 5:13)

• Plates contained the law (1 Ne 4:16), the "five books of Moses" down to the reign of Zedekiah, and prophecies of Jeremiah (1 Ne 5:11-13)

• Plates also contained writings of other prophets, some otherwise unknown (Zenos, Zenock, Neum, Ezias, Joseph) (1 Ne 19:10, 2 Ne 4:2)

• People cannot know the Law without having it written (1 Ne 4:15)

• Plates would "go forth unto all nations, kindreds, tongues and people who were of his [Lehi's?] seed" (1 Ne 5:18, Alma 37:3-5)

• Plates would "never perish" or be "dimmed any more by time." (1 Ne 5:18-19)

• Plates were handed down to Mosiah from Benjamin (Mosiah 1:16) to Alma (Mosiah 28:11, 20), to Helaman (Alma 37:13); to Nephi 3 from Nephi 2 (3 Ne 1:2)

• Plates were like today's Bible, but more than the Bible (1 Ne 13:20-23)

• Plates contained prophecies regarding Christ (1 Ne 19:10-22)

• God delivered Laban into Nephi's hands so that he could kill him to obtain the plates, which he did (1 Ne 4:6-18)

• Nephi obtained the plates by deceiving Laban's household, pretending to be Laban (1 Ne 4:20-26)

• Nephi copied many chapters of Isaiah from the brass plates onto the Plates of Nephi (1 Ne 19:23; long passages appear as 1 Ne 20, 21, 2 Ne 12 to 24; many shorter passages from Isaiah were also copied by later writers)

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