... and a voice spoke from heaven saying:

"These plates have been translated by the power of God.

The translation of them which you have seen is correct, and I command you to bear record of what you now see and hear."

-- Joseph Smith in "History of the Church" vol. 1, p. 55



"And we also know that they have been translated by the gift and power of God, for his voice hath declared it unto us; wherefore we know of a surety that the work is true."

-- "Testimony of The Testimony of Three Witnesses"



"I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth...

-- Joseph Smith "Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith" p. 194