“Traditionally, we think of the three witnesses to the Book of Mormon as Oliver Cowdery, Martin Harris, and David Whitmer. … However, there are additional sets of three witnesses to this sacred record. Moroni declared that the ‘Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost bear record’ (Ether 5:4). Also, three branches of the House of Israel, the Jews, the Nephites, and the lost tribes, each kept a record, and each branch will eventually receive the others’ records (2 Nephi 29:12–14). These three branches of the House of Israel will also become a set of three witnesses in the latter-days” (Donaldson, “Plates of Ether and the Covenant of the Book of Mormon,” 74).