Joe not only finds modern poetry on his ancient plates, but also translates contradictory Scripture. To instance: in the reign of Josiah, King of Judah, “the book of the Law was lost,” not a copy to be had. Now, Joe translates it from these plates. These plates were Laban’s, who had them in Jerusalem at the very time the book of the law was lost! Lost, and yet engraven on plates where all Jerusalem could see it! Joe, the prophet, did not know Bible history. Joe overreached himself. But he is blasphemous enough to claim that God guided him in translation! He calls such stuff “inspiration”! if so, it is the kind that put Joe to bed September 21, 1823, and out of the same bottle.