Revelation, 24 February 1834 [D&C 103]

Verily I say unto you my Friends  behold, I will give unto you a revelati on & commandment

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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, that you may  know how to act in the discharge of  your duties concerning the salvation  & redemption of your brethren who  have been scattered from the land of  Zion: being driven & smitten by  the hands of mine enemies on  whom I will pour out of my wrath  without measure in mine own time;  for I have suffered them thus far, that  they might fill up the measure  of their iniquities that their cup  might be full, & that those who  call themselves after my name  might be chastened for a little  season, with a sore & grievous [p. [7]]