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The standard works are printed and distributed by the LDS Church in a single binding called a quadruple combination and as a set of two books, with the Bible in one binding, and the other three books in a second binding called a triple combination. + The Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible

The Pearl of Great Price (containing the Book of Moses, the Book of Abraham, Joseph Smith-Matthew and Joseph Smith-History).

The Doctrine and Covenants of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The Book of Mormon, subtitled since 1981"Another Testament of Jesus Christ".

The standard works of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) are the four books that currently constitute its open scriptural canon, due to the LDS belief in continuous revelation.

Official Declarations 1 and 2, which discuss Plural Marriage and the priesthood.The LDS scriptures as an e-book app featuring voice output (TextToSpeech).

Articles of Faith, which outline the basic beliefs of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Joseph Smith-Matthew, which is the prophet's inspired translation/correction of St.

Joseph Smith-History, which gives a good overview of the prophet's early life, the First Vision, visitations from heavenly messengers, and the translation of the Book of Mormon.

The Pearl of Great Price contains four other segments: This book contains information about Abraham’s origins, premortal life, foreordination, the earth’s creation, and the Abrahamic covenant. Through divine inspiration, he translated from the papyri. Joseph Smith examined the papyri and determined that it contained some writings of Abraham. The Book of Abraham was translated from papyri obtained by the Church from archaeologists who were exhibiting their finds from Egypt. This book includes information about Moses' visions, the earth’s creation, Adam and Eve’s experiences, and more information about their descendants, especially Enoch. (See also Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible). He received revelation that some important truths had been omitted from Genesis and the Books of Moses found in the Bible.

The scriptures in the Book of Moses were delivered because Joseph Smith was pondering parts of Genesis. The Pearl of Great Price started as a collection of scriptures printed for the Saints in England to use. The Doctrine and Covenants addresses important aspects of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ, such as the Word of Wisdom, eternal marriage, the Priesthood, baptism by immersion, life after death, organization of the Church, and tithing. Some of the revelations do not relate to the Church as a whole but remain important, because they highlight gospel truths or history of the Church. All of the revelations are God’s answers to questions from prophets about the organization of the Church, scripture passages, or principles of the gospel. The Doctrine and Covenants is made up of revelations which were deemed important enough to adopt as scripture. Latter-day Saints believe that God continues to give revelation to man, and this is accomplished through his prophets.

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For the most part, the Book of Mormon (when read from front to back) is chronological, except for the Book of Ether, which is a record of the Jaredites, who migrated after the Tower of Babel was destroyed, and whose records were found and translated by more recent migrants of Israelite descent.įor a free copy of the Book of Mormon visit Doctrine and Covenants The Book of Mormon has fifteen sections called books, which are further divided into chapters and sections like the Bible.

The Book of Mormon, unlike the Bible, has only been translated from its original version once (into English-other translations are from the English version), and is therefore considered to have minimal translation errors. The Book of Mormon’s subtitle is “Another Testament of Jesus Christ.” The book testifies of Christ’s divinity and mission and is another witness that Christ lived, atoned for sins, died on the cross, and was resurrected. Christ visited a remnant of these peoples shortly after His resurrection and established His gospel and priesthood authority among them. Their descendants lived according to the Law of Moses, but were tutored by their prophets to look forward to the birth and atonement of Christ. Two of these groups were of Israelite descent. The Book of Mormon is an account of three groups of people who migrated from Asia to the Americas (the "Jaredites," the "Mulekites," and the family of Lehi). The Book of Mormon is similar to the Bible in that it is a compilation of writings from many prophets over many centuries (more than 1,000 years).