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Thank you. What shall we here to the boy in the temple? What shall we offer the land by the sea?

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Welcome back to my Book of Mormon podcast. I'm your host, Marie Kent.

Bryce is off to do something fabulous,

so like the last time he had the audacity to do something more fun than read the doctrines

and covenants, I've replaced him with lazy Googling and Wikipedia. For any new listeners

to this podcast, wow, you jumped right into the deep end of the pool. I highly recommend that

you go back and listen to the

first 119 episodes because I'm sure you have the time for that, because we are right now

about one quarter of the way through the revelations given during the early days of the church

to solve whatever problem cropped up. I've never read them and only know what I've learned

from, you know, listening to the first 111 episodes

before taking this show over from David Michael. Pretty sure this makes me not even close to an

expert, which is just how I like it. So today, we are going to read from Section 39. I'm reading

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