Joseph Smith was tasked by the Lord to do something rather unique for a backwoods upstate New York farmer now living in northern Ohio.

The prophet Nephi had seen a vision some 2,400 years before that many of the plain and precious things,

which were in the Bible had been taken out by the great and abominable Church,

and because those plain and precious things were taken away, and exceedingly great many do stumble,

yea, insomuch that Satan hath great power over them.

This commandment from the Lord and branch of Joseph's calling would be to carefully go through the Bible and

begin to restore many of those plain and precious things that were lost. He was commanded

to translate the Bible, and the results would be astounding. We'll talk about this in detail today.

Hello, dear friends, we are Scott and Maureen Proctor, and this We'll talk about this in detail today.

Hello, dear friends. We are Scott and Maureen Proctor, and this is Meridian Magazine's Come Follow Me podcast, where today we will be talking about Doctrine and Covenants, sections

71 through 75, in a lesson entitled, No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper. Remember,

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about the process of translation of the Bible by the prophet Joseph Smith. First, you have to picture

Egbert Brat Grandin's building in Palmyra. On the top floor is where the press was that printed the Book

of Mormon. On the middle floor, or second floor, as we would call it in the United States, was the

bindery, the place where copies of the Book of Mormon were cut, sewn and bound together with leather

bindings. And on the ground floor, or first floor, as we call it, was

the Palmyra bookstore where people could buy copies of the Book of Mormon and other significant

books and items. During the printing of the Book of Mormon in Palmyra, on Thursday, October 8th,

1829, Oliver Cowdery purchased an H&E, Finney, Cordo, Bible, the 1828 edition,

for $3.75, which included the apocrypha, by the way. This plays into the story. This Bible was

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