The Story of the Mormons, from the Date of Their Origin to the Year 1901Linn, William Alexander
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The Story of the Mormons, from the Date of Their Origin to the Year 1901
Linn, William Alexander
Latter Day Saints -- History; Utah -- History
Extended parts of the translation do not differ at all from the King
James version, and many of the changes are verbal and inconsequential.
Rigdon's object appears in the changes made in the fiftieth chapter
of Genesis, and the twenty-ninth chapter of Isaiah. In the King James
version the fiftieth chapter of Genesis contains twenty-six verses, and
ends with the words, "So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years
old; and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt." In
the Smith-Rigdon version this chapter contains thirty-eight verses, the
addition representing Joseph as telling his brethren that a branch of
his people shall be carried into a far country and that a seer shall
be given to them, "and that seer will I bless, and they that seek to
destroy him shall be confounded; for this promise I give unto you; for
I will remember you from generation to generation; and his name shall be
called Joseph. And he shall have judgment, and shall write the word of
the Lord."
The twenty-ninth chapter of Isaiah is similarly expanded from
twenty-four short to thirty-two long verses. Verses eleven and twelve of
the King James version read:--
"And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is
sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I
pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed.
"And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read
this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned."
The Smith-Rigdon version expands this as follows:--"11. And it shall
come to pass, that the Lord God shall bring forth unto you the words of
a book; and they shall be the words of them which have slumbered.
"12. And behold, the book shall be sealed; and in the book shall be
a revelation from God, from the beginning of the world to the ending
thereof.
"13. Wherefore, because of the things which are sealed up, the things
which are sealed shall not be delivered in the day of the wickedness and
abominations of the people. Wherefore, the book shall be kept from them.
"14. But the book shall be delivered unto a man, and he shall deliver
the words of the book, which are the words of those who have slumbered
in the dust; and he shall deliver these words unto another, but the
words that are sealed he shall not deliver, neither shall he deliver the
book.
"15. For the book shall be sealed by the power of God, and the
revelation which was sealed shall be kept in the book until the own due
time of the Lord, that they may come forth; for, behold, they reveal all
things from the foundation of the world unto the end thereof."
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