| December [16–22], 1830, Canandaigua, New York. |
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| Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon are to suspend translating until they reach Ohio. Visit
Colesville church. The Church is to gather in Ohio and remain there until Oliver Cowdery returns from his mission to the Lamanites. |
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Canandaigua is thirty-two miles west of Fayette. W. W. Phelps, who lived in Canandaigua, had purchased a Book of Mormon from Parley P. Pratt on April 9, 1830. He met Joseph Smith on December 24, 1830 and became a believer. Within days Joseph and Sidney traveled to Canandaigua
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| In the March 1847 issue of the Ensign of Liberty, William E. McLellin dates the revelation December 30, 1830 (
JS revelations
Joseph Smith Revelations: Text and Commentary, H. Michael Marquardt (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1999).
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97n98]). This date is almost certainly too late. After stopping in Canandaigua, where this reveation was received, Joseph and Sidney went to Colesville, where they remained "several days" before returning to Fayette for the January 1, 1831 conference (
Life among the Mormons
Mormonism; or, Life among the Mormons, Emily M. Austin (pen name for Emily Colburn, sister of Sally Colburn who married Newel Knight), (Madison, Wisconsin: M. J. Cantwell, 1882).
, 37; Minutes of January [1], 1831). |
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Book of Commandments and Revelations
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Book of Commandments and Revelations, titled "Revelation Book 1" in Manuscript Revelation Books, edited by Robin Scott Jensen, Robert J. Woodford, and Steven C. Harper, (Salt Lake City: The Church Historian's Press, 2009). This is the first volume in the Revelations and Translations series of The Joseph Smith Papers.
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John Whitmer scribe
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Redactors:Unidentified, John Whitmer |
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Book of Commandments
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A Book of Commandments, for the Government of the Church of Christ, Organized according to the Law, on the 6th of April, 1830 (Zion [Far West, MO]: W. W. Phelps & Co., 1833). Publication interrupted by a mob which destroyed the press in July 1833. Surviving pages are incomplete.
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No substantive changes were made from Book of Commandments 39 to D&C 58. |
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40th Com<m>andment AD 1830 |
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A Revelation to Sidney & Joseph at at time that they went from Fayette to Canandaigua to translate &c given at Canandaigua Ontario County State of New York |
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A Revelation
to Joseph and Sidney, given in Canandaigua, New-York, December, 1830. |
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¶ A Commandment to sidney & Joseph saying |
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| Stop translating until Ohio |
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Behold I say unto
ye <you> that it is not Expedient in me that ye should Translate any more
until ye shall go to the Ohio & this because of the enemy & for your
sakes |
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BEHOLD I say unto
you, that it is not expedient in me that ye should ranslate any more
until ye shall go to the Ohio, and this because of the enemy and for your
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| Go to Colesville first
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& again I say unto you
that ye shall not go untill ye have Preached my Gospel in those parts
& have strengthened up the Church whithersoever it is found & more
especially in Colesville |
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And again, I say unto you,
that ye shall not go until ye have preached my gospel in those parts,
and have strengthened up the church whithersoever it is found, and more
especially in Colesville: |
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for Behold they pray unto me in much faith |
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For behold they pray unto me in much faith. |
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| Church to gather in Ohio until
Oliver returns |
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& again a commandment I give <say> <give> unto the Church that it is expedient in me that they should assemble
together at the Ohio by <against> the time that my Servent Oliver shall return unto them. |
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And again a commandment I give unto the church, that it is expedient in me that they should assemble
together at the Ohio, against the time that my servant Oliver shall return unto them. |
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| Let each man choose |
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Behold here is wisdom & let
evry man Choose for himself until I come amen even so amen
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Behold here is wisdom, and let
every man choose for himself until I come; even so: Amen.
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