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

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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
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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].

Historical Introduction
See Historical Introduction to Revelation, 12 Aug. 1831 [D&C 61].
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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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recd. about the 12th. Augt 1831 on the Banks of the
Missouri
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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about 40 miles above
Chairton
Established 16 Nov. 1820. Village of Chariton named county seat, 1820. Keytesville named county seat, 1833. Population in 1830 about 1,800. Population in 1836 about 3,500. In Aug. 1831, while en route from Independence to Kirtland, JS met ten other elders...
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on our return from
Zion
JS revelation, dated 20 July 1831, designated Missouri as “land of Zion” for gathering of Saints and place where “City of Zion” was to be built, with Independence area as “center place” of Zion. Latter-day Saint settlements elsewhere, such as in Kirtland,...
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Behold and hearken unto the voice of him who hath all power, who is from everlasting to everlasting even Alpha & Omega the beginning & the end, behold verily thus saith the Lord unto you, O ye
Elders
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, who are assembled upon this spot, whose sins are now forgiven you for I the Lord forgiveth Sins, and am merciful unto those who confess their sins with humble hearts, but verily I say unto you that it is not needful for this whole company of mine Elders to be moving swiftly upon the water whilst the inhabitants upon with side are perishing in unbelief, nevertheless I suffered that ye might bare record behold there are many dangers upon [p. [37]]
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Revelation, 12 August 1831, as Recorded in Gilbert, Notebook [D&C 61]
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