Cumorah is the name of the land[1] in which the Hill Cumorah[2] is located. It is one of many drumlin hills in the Finger Lakes region in Western New York in Manchester, where Joseph Smith, Jr. said he found a set of golden plates which he translated and published as the Book of Mormon. In the text of the Book of Mormon, "Cumorah" (misprinted Camorah in the 1830 edition, but not the Printer's Manuscript) is a land situated in “a land of many waters, rivers and fountains”.[3] In this hill Book of Mormon figure Moroni 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 230,000 men, women, and children were killed.[4] This may have been the location for the last battle of the Jaredite nation centuries earlier, although the hill where that battle took place was called Ramah.[5]
Thursday, February 10, 2011
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