D&C 9:1-14

Doctrine & Covenants > Section 9

Outline and brief summary

Section 9 can be outlined as follows:

Historical setting

Received:

Previous section chronologically: Section 8                      Next section chronologically: Section 10

The immediate setting of D&C 9 was

Detailed discussion

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Relation to other scriptures

Related sections and chapters

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Parallel passages

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Text transmission and circulation

• The oldest surviving partial copy of D&C 9 is the one copied by John Whitmer into Revelation Book 1, p. 14 (incomplete), presumably during the summer of 1830. The oldest surviving complete copy is ________.

• D&C 9 was first published in the 1833 Book of Commandments, the earliest edition of what we now call the Doctrine & Covenants.

• The text of D&C 9 in significant editions of the Doctrine & Covenants can be found at:

• 1833 Book of Commandments, chap. 8, p. 20-21
• 1835 Doctrine & Covenants, sec. 35, p. 162-63
• 1844 Doctrine & Covenants, sec. 35, p. 239-40
• 1876 Doctrine & Covenants, sec. 9, p. 89-90
• 1921 Doctrine & Covenants, sec. 9, p. 13-14
• current 1981 Doctrine & Covenants, sec. 9, p. 15-16

• Changes to the text of D&C 9:

Questions for further thought and study

Verse 8

• In verses 8-9, was this really the method used in translating or was it the method Oliver was to use to know if it was the Lord's will that he translate?

Verse 10

• Is Oliver being held responsible here for something that he did not know? Should he have known this?

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