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Revelation, 12 August 1831, as Recorded in Gilbert, Notebook [D&C 61]

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Revelation, Bank of the
Missouri River

One of longest rivers in North America, in excess of 3,000 miles. From headwaters in Montana to confluence with Mississippi River near St. Louis, Missouri River drains 580,000 square miles (about one-sixth of continental U.S.). Explored by Lewis and Clark...

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[at McIlwaine’s Bend], MO, 12 Aug. 1831. Version copied [ca. Sept. 1831] in Gilbert, Notebook, pp. [37]–[45]; handwriting of
Sidney Gilbert

28 Dec. 1789–29 June 1834. Merchant. Born at New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut. Son of Eli Gilbert and Lydia Hemingway. Moved to Huntington, Fairfield Co., Connecticut; to Monroe, Monroe Co., Michigan Territory, by Sept. 1818; to Painesville, Geauga Co...

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; Revelations Collection, CHL. For more complete source information, see the source note for Revelation, 27 Feb. 1833 [D&C 89].

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See Historical Introduction to Revelation, 12 Aug. 1831 [D&C 61].
Asterisk (*) denotes a "featured" version, which includes an introduction and annotation. *Revelation, 12 August 1831 [D&C 61]

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the Land, even so in the last days have I blessed it in its time for the use of my servants, that they may partake the fatness thereof, and now I give unto you a
commandmt

Generally, a divine mandate that church members were expected to obey; more specifically, a text dictated by JS in the first-person voice of Deity that served to communicate knowledge and instruction to JS and his followers. Occasionally, other inspired texts...

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& what I say unto one I say unto all, that you shall forewarn your brethren concerning these waters that they come not in journeying upon them, lest their faith fail & they are caught in her snares, I the Lord hath decreed & the destroyer rideth upon the face thereof & I revoke not the decree. I the Lord was angry with you yesterday but to day mine anger is turned away, wherefore let those concerning whom I have spoken that should take their journey in haste, again I say unto you let them take their journey in haste and it mattereth not unto me after a [p. [40]]
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