Origin
See also: Joseph Smith Translation of the BibleIn June 1830, Joseph Smith, Jr. began a new Bible translation that was intended to restore “many important points touching the salvation of men, had been taken from the Bible, or lost before it was compiled." The Book of Moses is an excerpt of chapters from the first part of what is now called the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible. The chapters that now make up the Book of Moses were first published in the Latter Day Saint newspapers Evening and Morning Star and Times and Seasons in the 1830s and 1840s. These chapters were selected and included as a separate book within the Pearl of Great Price through a series of events subsequent to the death of Joseph Smith.
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