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Welcome to talking scripture. I'm Mike and I'm Bryce and today we jump into

sections three four and five which is early in church history long before the church gets organized.

And one of the things we're going to do this year as we study these sections is we're going to try and

provide enough background to provide some understanding of what's going on and why is it significant.

So we turn now to the loss of what we call the 116 pages, which was actually probably more than that, and Mike will get into that. So let's set the

stage Mike for why does Martin Harris want this manuscript what's he

planning to do with it? What's the whole setting of section 3 where Joseph Smith is going to be rebuked for giving the pages to Martin Harris.

So that's a great question.

One of the questions people ask all the time is like, why does he even have the manuscript?

He pressured Joseph to give him for a short time so that he could

reclaim his reputation. His issue was people back home in Palmyra thought that Martin

had perhaps gone mad.

We're going to put in the show notes a timeline of the 1828 time period,

the Book of Mormon translation timeline is what we call it.

Starting in December of 1827,

Joseph and Emma, they leave Palmyra

and they go to Harmony.

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