![]() ![]() His translation of the Bible involved restoring truths that were lost from the Bible because of the carelessness of those who copied the text or because wicked men took out truths they did not want people to know. From the Book of Mormon, the Prophet had learned that “many plain and precious things” were missing from the Bible (see 1 Nephi 13:23–28). ![]() Within a few months after the organization of the Church on 6 April 1830, the Lord commanded the Prophet Joseph Smith to make a “translation” of the Bible. To learn more about the book, look up “Genesis” in the Bible Dictionary of the Latter-day Saint edition of the King James Version of the Bible (pp. 678–79). It covers roughly twenty-five hundred years of history-more than all the rest of the Bible, including the New Testament! Many of the most famous Bible stories come from Genesis, such as the Fall of Adam and Eve, Cain killing Abel, Noah and the Flood, the building of the Tower of Babel, Abraham nearly offering his son Isaac as a sacrifice, and Joseph being sold into Egypt. ![]() The book of Genesis is the first of five books written by Moses. ![]()
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