Ancient Inhabitants Dug Out the Grand Canyon in an Account Written in a Reformed Egyptian Language

Those Ancient Inhabitants of this North Country were Greater in Power, for they Dug the Earth up More than they have Dug it up, and Cast Up Mighty Heaps of Earth to Get Ore

And we Give this Account in the Characters which are Called Reformed Egyptian

40:81 - 82, Qur'an
[God] shows you His signs. So which of the signs of God do you deny? [Or] have they not traveled through the land and observed how the end was for those before them? They were more numerous than themselves and greater in strength and in impression on the land, but they were not availed by what they used to earn.

{Ether 1:1}, Torah
[Then have you not read of the] account of those ancient inhabitants who were destroyed by the hand of the Lord upon the face of this north country?

{Ether 7:27}, Torah
[After] the Lord had [brought] them across the great deep into the promised land -

{Omni 1:22}, Torah
[When they] came out from the Tower [of Babel], at the time the Lord confounded the language of the people; and the severity of the Lord fell upon them according to His judgements, which are just; and their bones lay scattered in the land northward?

30:9, Qur'an
Then have they not traveled through the earth and observed how the end was for those before them? [For] they were greater than them in power, and they dug the earth and built it up more than they have built it up -

{Ether 10:23}, Torah
[For] they cast up mighty heaps of earth to get ore, of gold, and of silver, and of iron, and of copper, and they dug it out of the earth, and they did work in all manner of ore, and they made gold, and silver, and iron, and brass, and all manner of metals. And they worked all manner of fine work.

{Ether 10:22}, Torah
And they were exceedingly industrious, and they bought and sold and trafficked with one another, so that they might get gain.

{Ether 10:27}, Torah
And they made all manner of weapons of war. And they worked all manner of work of exceedingly curious workmanship.

{Ether 1:5}, Torah
But behold, I do not give the full account [of them], but I [only] give a part of the account, from the Tower [of Babel] down until they were destroyed.

{Mormon 9:32}, Torah
And now, behold, we have written this record [on plates of brass] according to our knowledge, in the characters which are called the reformed Egyptian amongst us, being handed down and altered by us, according to our manner of speech -

{1 Nephi 1:2}, Torah
Which consists of the learning of the Jews and the language of the Egyptians.

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