Original sentence: Smith dictated what he claimed to be a translation of these plates using a seer stone in the bottom of a hat, which he placed over his face to view the words written within the stone.Though he allowed others to heft the box, he said that the angel had forbidden him to show the plates to anyone.until they had been translated from their original "reformed Egyptian" language
Edited sentence: Smith dictated a translation using a seer stone in the bottom of a hat, which he placed over his face to view the words written within the stone.Smith published the translation in 1830 as the Book of Mormon.Though he allowed others to heft the box, he said that the angel had forbidden him to show the plates to anyone until they had been translated from their original "reformed Egyptian" language