Letter to William W. Phelps, 27 November 1832, Extract, as Published in Evening and Morning Star
Source Note
JS, Letter, [, Geauga Co., OH], to , [, Jackson Co., MO, 27 Nov. 1832]. Extract published in “Let Every Man Learn His Duty,” Evening and Morning Star, Jan. 1833 (Apr. 1836), pp. 121–122. For more complete source information, see the source note for Revelations printed in Evening and Morning Star, Jan. 1835–June 1836.
among unbelievers, where there is wailing and gnashing of teeth. These things I say not of myself, therefore, as the Lord speaketh he will also fulfil.
[And the]y who are of the , whose names are not found written in the book of the law, or that are found to have apostatized, or to have been cut off out of the , as well as the ; or the members, in that day, shall not find an among the of the most High: therefore, it shall be done unto them as unto the children of the , as it is written in the second chapter, and 61st and 62d verses of Ezra: And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai: which took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name: These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the . [p. 122]