19. And for this very purpose are these plates preserved which contain these records, that the promises of the Lord might be fulfilled, which He made to His people; 20. And that the Lamanites might come to the knowledge of their fathers, and that they might know the promises of the Lord, and that they may believe the Gospel and rely upon the merits of Jesus Christ, and be glorified through faith in his name, and that through their repentance they might be saved. Amen. [Sidenote: Interpreters and Plates Returned to the Prophet.] After I had obtained the above revelation, both the plates and the Urim and Thummim were taken from me again; but in a few days they were returned to me, when I inquired of the Lord, and the Lord said thus unto me: [5] _Revelation, given to Joseph Smith, Jun., informing him of the alteration of the manuscript of the fore part of the Book of Mormon._ [6] 1. Now, behold, I say unto you, that because you delivered up those writings which you had power given unto you to translate by the means of the {24} Urim and Thummim, into the hands of a wicked man, you have lost them. 2. And you also lost your gift at the same time, and your mind became darkened. 3. Nevertheless, it is now restored unto you again; therefore see that you are faithful and continue on unto the finishing of the remainder of the work of translation as you have begun; 4. Do not run faster, or labor more than you have strength and means provided to enable you to translate; but be diligent unto the end: 5. Pray always that you may come off conqueror: yea, that you may conquer Satan, and that you may escape the hands of the servants of Satan that do uphold his work. 6. Behold, they have sought to destroy you; yea, even the man in whom you have trusted has sought to destroy you. 7. And for this cause I said that he is a wicked man, for he has sought to take away the things wherewith you have been entrusted; and he has also sought to destroy your gift; 8. And because you have delivered the writings into his hands, behold wicked men have taken them from you: 9. Therefore, you have delivered them up, yea, that which was sacred, unto wickedness. 10. And, behold, Satan hath put it into their hearts to alter the words which you have caused to be written, or which you have translated, which have gone out of your hands. 11. And behold, I say unto you, that because they have altered the words, they read contrary from that which you translated and caused to be written; 12. And, on this wise, the devil has sought to lay a cunning plan, that he may destroy this work; 13. For he hath put it into their hearts to do this, that by lying they may say they have caught you in the words which you have pretended to translate.