User:Visorstuff/Joseph Smith on Berosheit

The following is a quotation from Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith:

I shall comment on the very first Hebrew word in the Bible; I will make a comment on the very first sentence of the history of the creation in the Bible--Berosheit. I want to analyze the word. Baith--in, by through, and everything else. Rosh--the head. Sheit--grammatical termination. When the inspired man wrote it, he did not put the baith there. An old Jew without any authority added the word; he thought it too bad to begin to talk about the head! It read first, 'The head one of the Gods brought forth the Gods.' That is the true meaning of the words. Baurau signifies to bring forth. If you do not believe it, you do not believe the learned man of God. Learned men can teach you no more than what I have told you. Thus the head God brought forth the Gods in the grand council...In the beginning, the head of the Gods called a council of the Gods; and they came together and concocted a plan to create the world and people it.

--Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p.348