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Visions of Moses, June 1830 [Moses 1]

 
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This revelation represents the first part of what is known as JS’s Bible Revision. In early October 1829, Oliver Cowdery

3 Oct. 1806–3 Mar. 1850. Clerk, teacher, justice of the peace, lawyer, newspaper editor. Born at Wells, Rutland Co., Vermont. Son of William Cowdery and Rebecca Fuller. Raised Congregationalist. Moved to western New York and clerked at a store, ca. 1825–1828...

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 purchased a copy of the King James Bible that JS used in summer 1830 to revise the scriptural text. By the time JS laid aside the Old Testament and New Testament manuscripts three years later, he had amended more than three thousand Bible verses, adding or altering passages and occasionally even entire chapters in a process he referred to as a translation.
The revelation served as a preface to the Pentateuch, particularly the book of Genesis. Unique to this narrative is an encounter between God and Moses in which Moses begins to comprehend God’s glory and the expanse of his creations.
Cowdery wrote this extract about June 1830, though it is not known where he was at the time. After Cowdery left on a mission, other scribes wrote for JS, adding to the manuscript during fall 1830. In December work ceased until after the move to Kirtland, Ohio, in early 1831.

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Visions of Moses, June 1830 [Moses 1]
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