Behold, I speak unto you, keep my commandments, and seek to bring forth and establish the cause of Zion.

Doctrine and Covenants, section 12, verse 6.

Hey, listeners, this is Neil from Book of Mormon Central, and today's podcast addresses the question,

how is the Joseph Knight family important to bringing forth the Book of Mormon?

From November 1826 to July 1827, Joseph Smith did manual labor

for Joseph Knight Sr. and lodged with his family in Colesville, New York. Arriving at the Knight's

homestead only weeks after his fourth annual visit with Moroni at the Hill Camorra, Joseph quickly came to

trust Joseph Knight and his sons. As Joseph Knight

Jr. remembered, it was that November when Joseph made known to my father and I that he had seen a vision

that a personage had appeared to him and told him where there was a gold book of ancient date

buried. I think we were the first after his father's family to be told about this. The trust between Joseph

and the Knight family was mutual. As they lived and worked closely with Joseph, the Knights found

him to be an honest and trustworthy young man, so much so that they couldn't help but believe him.

According to Newell Knight, when Joseph talked about his visions of Maronai and the gold plates,

he was so honest and

plain in all his statements that there was no room for any misgivings with me on the subject.

When the time came to retrieve the plates almost a year later on September 22nd, 1827,

Joseph Knight Sr. was staying at the Smith Farm.

Joseph Smith took Knight's horse and wagon to the Hill Comorra to retrieve the plates and the interpreters, or the Yermimum-Thumum.

When Joseph returned, Knight said that he gave a description of the plates mentioning the length and the width and the thickness of the plates.

But Knight remembered Joseph seemed to think more of the glasses or the Yermam-Thumum than he did of the plates.

Joseph told Knight, I can see anything. They are marvelous.

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