Old Testament Revision, John Whitmer First Copy
Old Testament Revision, John Whitmer First Copy
Source Note
Source Note
Old Testament Revision, between Dec. 1830 and early Jan. 1831; handwriting of ; sixteen pages; CHL.
This copy of the Old Testament Revision remained in the Whitmer family until 1903, when it was acquired by the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (now Community of Christ). In 2024, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints acquired the manuscript from the Community of Christ, and it is now held at the Church History Library in Salt Lake City.
Footnotes
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Jackson and Faulring, “Old Testament Manuscript 3,” 116.
Jackson, Kent P., and Scott H. Faulring. “Old Testament Manuscript 3: An Early Transcript of the Book of Moses.” Mormon Historical Studies 5, no. 2 (Fall 2004): 113–144.
Historical Introduction
Historical Introduction
Shortly before moved from to , Ohio, in early January 1831, he made a copy of Old Testament Revision 1. This copy includes the first 19 pages and the first five lines of page 20 of the revision (Moses 1; Genesis 1–5). It is possible Whitmer only copied part of the revision manuscript, or that he copied as much as had been dictated by January 1831. The specific circumstances for making this copy are unknown. It was kept in the Whitmer family until 1903, when the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints acquired it.
For more information on JS’s Bible revision project, see Historical Introduction to Old Testament Revision 1.
Footnotes
- [1]
Jackson and Faulring, “Old Testament Manuscript 3,” 116.
Jackson, Kent P., and Scott H. Faulring. “Old Testament Manuscript 3: An Early Transcript of the Book of Moses.” Mormon Historical Studies 5, no. 2 (Fall 2004): 113–144.
Righteousness for the space of a thousand years]- but before that day he saw great tribulation among the wicked & he also saw the sea that it was troubled mens hearts failing them looking forth with fear for the judgement of the almighty God which should come upon the wicked & the Lord showed Enoch all things even unto the end of the world & he saw the day of the righteous the hour of the redemption & received a fullness of joy & all the days of Zion in the days of Enoch were 365 years & Enoch & all his people walked with God & he dwelt in the midst of Zion & it came to pass that Zion was not for God received it up into his own bosom & from thence went forth the saying Zion is fled & it came to pass that Mathusael the son of Enoch was not taken that the Covenants of the Lord might be fulfilled which he made to Enoch for he truly covenanted with Enoch that Noah should by <be> the fruit of his loins & it came to pass that Mathusalah prophesied that from his loins should spring all the kingdoms of the earth from Noah, & he took glory unto himself & there came forth a great famine into the land & the Lord cursed the earth with a sore curse & many of the inhabitants thereof died & it came to pass that mathusalah lived 187 years & begat Lamech & Mathuselah lived after he begat Lamech 802 years & begat sons & daughters & all the days of Mathusalah were 969 years & he died & Lamech lived an 182 years & begat a son & he called his name Noah saying this son Shall comfort us concerning our work & toil of our hands because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed & Lamech lived after he bagt [begat] noah 505 years & begat sons & daughters & all the days of Lamech 777 years & he died & Noah was 500 years old & he begat Sem ham & Jephath—— [p. 16]
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