Revelation, 27 July 1842, in Unidentified Handwriting–B
Source Note
Revelation, , Hancock Co., IL, 27 July 1842. Version copied [ca. 1870s]; unidentified handwriting; docket in unidentified handwriting; two pages; Revelations Collection, CHL.
Asterisk (*) denotes a "featured" version, which includes an introduction and annotation.
*Revelation, 27 July 1842
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Wednesday 27th. July 1842
Verily thus saith the Lord unto my servant the thing that my servant Joseph Smith has made known unto you and your family and which you have agreed upon is right in mine eyes and shall be crowned upon your heads with honor and immortality and eternal life to all your house both old and young because of the lineage of my saith the Lord it shall be upon you and upon your Children after you from generation to generation By virtue of the Holy promise which I now make unto you saith the Lord. these are the words which you shall pronounce upon my servant Joseph and your Daughter they shall take each other by the hand and you shall say you both mutualy agree calling them by name to be each others companion so long as you both shall live preserving yourselves for each other and from all others and also throughout eternity reserving only those rights which have been given to my Servant Joseph by revelation and comandment and by legal Authority in times passed If you both agree to covenant and do this then I then give you my Daughter to Joseph Smith to be his wife to observe all the rights betwen you both that belong to that condition I do it in my own name and in the name of my your mother and <in> the name of my holy Progenitors by the right of birth which is of Priesthood vested in me by revelation and commandment and promise of the liveing God obtaind by the Holy Milchisidick Gethrow [Jethro] and other of the Holy Fathers commanding in the name of the Lords all those Powers to concentrate in you [p. [1]]