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Feast upon the Word provides commentary on Mormon scripture, or in other words, on the Standard Works for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Standard Works for the Church are: The Old Testament, The New Testament, The Book of Mormon, The Doctrine & Covenants and The Pearl of Great Price. This commentary is provided free to all. In turn, we ask that you freely contribute to this site following our policies.

Feast upon the Word is a collection of thousands of pages. Each page is devoted to analysis of a small passage of the Standard Works. The content on each page is divided into four categories:

• Questions : Questions about the text
• Lexical notes : Notes about the meaning or origin of words
• Exegesis : Explanation and analysis
• External links : Links to other information

See how this works in practice at Alma 13:1-5.

In addition, each commentary page is linked to a separate page for discussion. These discussion pages are a great place to communicate with other editors about the commentary or to make comments on specific subjects related to the verses that don't fit as commentary.

This is still a new site. Commentary is growing every day; still many commentary pages have no content and much more help is needed. Your help is needed! See the Community portal for ideas about how to help and for other information about this site. Of course, the most important way to help is to create and improve the content of this site. If you are not sure how to do this--keep reading.

Getting started

Anyone can add or edit content on this site. Here are some simple steps to get started.

1. Take a quick read of our site policies
2. Find a section of scripture you are interested in (see below)
3. Add and revise content by clicking the edit link
4. Click "Save page" when you are done

Finally, if you haven't done so already, please create an account. Though we allow anonymous edits, by creating an account you help create a sense of community here. Further, when you log in, certain personalized features of this site will be available to you that are not available to anonymous users.

Finding scriptures

Find the scripture you are looking for:

• The Old Testament
• The New Testament
• The Book of Mormon
• The Doctrine & Covenants
• The Pearl of Great Price.

Searching for scriptures

The fastest way to get to a scripture is by typing its reference in the search box. You can find the search box on the left of any page on this site below the navigation links. To use the search box to find a scripture commentary page you need to use the standard abbreviations used in the footnotes of the scriptures published by the Church. Also you must type the reference to a single verse rather than to a passage. For example, type:

• 1 Ne 16:28, but not 1 Nephi 16:28
• Mosiah 5:2, but not Mos 5:2
• Philip 2:5, but not Phil 2:5
• Matt 28:6, but not Matt 28:6-8

For a complete list of standard LDS abbreviations, click here.

Help

If you need help, please see our help page.