Alma 10; 1 Ne. 5:11-16; 3 Ne. 10:16; Messiah in Ancient America, Warren & Ferguson, pp. 124-127, 231-237; Lehi in the Desert, Nibley, p. 26
“The brass plates obtained from Laban contained … a record of the Jews from the beginning down to Zedekiah, and the prophecies of the prophets from the beginning down to Jeremiah. (1 Nephi 3:3-20, 5:11-13.) This would explain how the biblical stories were known by the American Indian groups even before the arrival of the Catholic fathers and their Bibles after the time of Columbus. Historians have concluded the American Indians knew of the story of the creation, the flood, etc., before the time of Columbus, although they have not been able to explain how the Indians came into possession of this knowledge.” (Daniel H. Ludlow, Companion to Your Study of the Book of Mormon, pp. 98-99)