The Book of Moses is part of the scriptural canon of Mormonism dictated by founder Joseph Smith, Jr. It is an amalgamation of the "Vision of Moses," which Smith dictated in June 1830, the "Book of Enoch," dictated December 1830, and material deriving from Smith's revision of the Book of Genesis in early 1831 which incorporated the Book of Enoch and treated the Vision of Moses as a prologue to the Bible. Its full title is Selections from the Book of Moses, implying that it is not a complete work. The vision of Moses and the Book of Enoch works were originally published separately by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in 1851, but later combined and published as the Book of Moses in the Pearl of Great Price, one of the four books of the Mormon scriptural canon. The same material is published in different form by the Community of Christ as part of its Inspired Version of the Bible.
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