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New Testament Revision 2

Matthew, Chapter 1 Page 1 (first numbering) Matthew, Chapter 2 Page 1 (first numbering) Matthew, Chapter 3 Page 2 (first numbering) Matthew, Chapter 4 Page 5 (first numbering) Matthew, Chapter 5 Page 6 (first numbering) Matthew, Chapter 6 Page 9 (first numbering) Matthew, Chapter 7 Page 12 (first numbering) Matthew, Chapter 8 Page 14 (first numbering) Matthew, Chapter 9 Page 16 (first numbering) Matthew, Chapter 10 Page 18 (first numbering) Matthew, Chapter 11 Page 20 (first numbering) Matthew, Chapter 12 Page 21 (first numbering) Matthew, Chapter 13 Page 24 (first numbering) Matthew, Chapter 14 Page 27 (first numbering) Matthew, Chapter 15 Page 28 (first numbering) Matthew, Chapter 16 Page 30 (first numbering) Matthew, Chapter 17 Page 32 (first numbering) Matthew, Chapter 18 Page 33 (first numbering) Matthew, Chapter 19 Page 35 (first numbering) Matthew, Chapter 20 Page 36 (first numbering) Matthew, Chapter 21 Page 38 (first numbering) Matthew, Chapter 22 Page 41 (first numbering) Matthew, Chapter 23 Page 42 (first numbering) Matthew, Chapter 24 Page 45 (first numbering) Matthew, Chapter 25 Page 47 (first numbering) Matthew, Chapter 26 Page 49 (first numbering) Matthew, Chapter 27 Page 4 (second numbering) Matthew, Chapter 28 Page 7 (second numbering) Mark, Chapter 1 Page 8 (second numbering) Mark, Chapter 2 Page 10 (second numbering) Mark, Chapter 3 Page 12 (second numbering) Mark, Chapter 4 Page 14 (second numbering) Mark, Chapter 5 Page 16 (second numbering) Mark, Chapter 6 Page 18 (second numbering) Mark, Chapter 7 Page 20 (second numbering) Mark, Chapter 8 Page 22 (second numbering) Mark, Chapter 9 Page 24 (second numbering) Mark, Chapter 10 Page 28 (second numbering) Mark, Chapter 11 Page 31 (second numbering) Mark, Chapter 12 Page 33 (second numbering) Mark, Chapter 13 Page 35 (second numbering) Mark, Chapter 14 Page 38 (second numbering) Mark, Chapter 15 Page 42 (second numbering) Mark, Chapter 16 Page 44 (second numbering) Luke, Chapter 1 Page 45 (second numbering) Luke, Chapter 2 Page 49 (second numbering) Luke, Chapter 3 Page 51 (second numbering) Luke, Chapter 4 Page 54 (second numbering) Luke, Chapter 5 Page 56 (second numbering) Luke, Chapter 6 Page 58 (second numbering) Luke, Chapter 7 Page 61 (second numbering) Luke, Chapter 8 Page 63 (second numbering) Luke, Chapter 9 Page 66 (second numbering) Luke, Chapter 10 Page 69 (second numbering) Luke, Chapter 11 Page 72 (second numbering) Luke, Chapter 12 Page 74 (second numbering) Luke, Chapter 13 Page 79 (second numbering) Luke, Chapter 14 Page 81 (second numbering) Luke, Chapter 15 Page 83 (second numbering) Luke, Chapter 16 Page 85 (second numbering) Luke, Chapter 17 Page 87 (second numbering) Luke, Chapter 18 Page 89 (second numbering) Luke, Chapter 19 Page 91 (second numbering) Luke, Chapter 20 Page 93 (second numbering) Luke, Chapter 21 Page 95 (second numbering) Luke, Chapter 22 Page 97 (second numbering) Luke, Chapter 23 Page 100 (second numbering) Luke, Chapter 24 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Chapter 24 Page 120 (second numbering) Acts, Chapter 25 Page 120 (second numbering) Acts, Chapter 26 Page 120 (second numbering) Acts, Chapter 27 Page 120 (second numbering) Acts, Chapter 28 Page 121 (second numbering) Romans, Chapter 1 Page 121 (second numbering) Romans, Chapter 2 Page 122 (second numbering) Romans, Chapter 3 Page 122 (second numbering) Romans, Chapter 4 Page 123 (second numbering) Romans, Chapter 5 Page 123 (second numbering) Romans, Chapter 6 Page 123 (second numbering) Romans, Chapter 7 Page 123 (second numbering) Romans, Chapter 8 Page 125 (second numbering) Romans, Chapter 9 Page 125 (second numbering) Romans, Chapter 10 Page 125 (second numbering) Romans, Chapter 11 Page 126 (second numbering) Romans, Chapter 12 Page 126 (second numbering) Romans, Chapter 13 Page 126 (second numbering) Romans, Chapter 14 Page 126 (second numbering) Romans, Chapter 15 Page 126 (second numbering) Romans, Chapter 16 Page 126 (second numbering) 1 Corinthians, Chapter 1 Page 126 (second numbering) 1 Corinthians, Chapter 2 Page 127 (second numbering) 1 Corinthians, Chapter 3 Page 127 (second numbering) 1 Corinthians, Chapter 4 Page 127 (second numbering) 1 Corinthians, Chapter 5 Page 127 (second numbering) 1 Corinthians, Chapter 6 Page 127 (second numbering) 1 Corinthians, Chapter 7 Page 127 (second numbering) 1 Corinthians, Chapter 8 Page 128 (second numbering) 1 Corinthians, Chapter 9 Page 128 (second numbering) 1 Corinthians, Chapter 10 Page 128 (second numbering) 1 Corinthians, Chapter 11 Page 129 (second numbering) 1 Corinthians, Chapter 12 Page 129 (second numbering) 1 Corinthians, Chapter 13 Page 129 (second numbering) 1 Corinthians, Chapter 14 Page 129 (second numbering) 1 Corinthians, Chapter 15 Page 129 (second numbering) 1 Corinthians, Chapter 16 Page 130 (second numbering) 2 Corinthians, Chapter 1 Page 130 (second numbering) 2 Corinthians, Chapter 2 Page 130 (second numbering) 2 Corinthians, Chapter 3 Page 130 (second numbering) 2 Corinthians, Chapter 4 Page 130 (second numbering) 2 Corinthians, Chapter 5 Page 130 (second numbering) 2 Corinthians, Chapter 6 Page 130 (second numbering) 2 Corinthians, Chapter 7 Page 131 (second numbering) 2 Corinthians, Chapter 8 Page 131 (second numbering) 2 Corinthians, Chapter 9 Page 131 (second numbering) 2 Corinthians, Chapter 10 Page 131 (second numbering) 2 Corinthians, Chapter 11 Page 131 (second numbering) 2 Corinthians, Chapter 12 Page 131 (second numbering) 2 Corinthians, Chapter 13 Page 131 (second numbering) Galatians, Chapter 1 Page 131 (second numbering) Galatians, Chapter 2 Page 131 (second numbering) Galatians, Chapter 3 Page 132 (second numbering) Galatians, Chapter 4 Page 132 (second numbering) Galatians, Chapter 5 Page 132 (second numbering) Galatians, Chapter 6 Page 132 (second numbering) Ephesians, Chapter 1 Page 132 (second numbering) Ephesians, Chapter 2 Page 132 (second numbering) Ephesians, Chapter 3 Page 132 (second numbering) Ephesians, Chapter 4 Page 133 (second numbering) Ephesians, Chapter 5 Page 133 (second numbering) Ephesians, Chapter 6 Page 133 (second numbering) Philippians, Chapter 1 Page 133 (second numbering) Philippians, Chapter 2 Page 134 (second numbering) Philippians, Chapter 3 Page 134 (second numbering) Philippians, Chapter 4 Page 134 (second numbering) Colossians, Chapter 1 Page 134 (second numbering) Colossians, Chapter 2 Page 134 (second numbering) Colossians, Chapter 3 Page 135 (second numbering) Colossians, Chapter 4 Page 135 (second numbering) 1 Thessalonians, Chapter 1 Page 135 (second numbering) 1 Thessalonians, Chapter 2 Page 135 (second numbering) 1 Thessalonians, Chapter 3 Page 135 (second numbering) 1 Thessalonians, Chapter 4 Page 135 (second numbering) 1 Thessalonians, Chapter 5 Page 135 (second numbering) 2 Thessalonians, Chapter 1 Page 135 (second numbering) 2 Thessalonians, Chapter 2 Page 136 (second numbering) 2 Thessalonians, Chapter 3 Page 136 (second numbering) 1 Timothy, Chapter 1 Page 136 (second 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numbering) Hebrews, Chapter 9 Page 140 (second numbering) Hebrews, Chapter 10 Page 141 (second numbering) Hebrews, Chapter 11 Page 141 (second numbering) Hebrews, Chapter 12 Page 141 (second numbering) Hebrews, Chapter 13 Page 141 (second numbering) James, Chapter 1 Page 142 (second numbering) James, Chapter 2 Page 142 (second numbering) James, Chapter 3 Page 143 (second numbering) James, Chapter 4 Page 143 (second numbering) James, Chapter 5 Page 143 (second numbering) 1 Peter, Chapter 1 Page 143 (second numbering) 1 Peter, Chapter 2 Page 143 (second numbering) 1 Peter, Chapter 3 Page 144 (second numbering) 1 Peter, Chapter 4 Page 144 (second numbering) 1 Peter, Chapter 5 Page 145 (second numbering) 2 Peter, Chapter 1 Page 145 (second numbering) 2 Peter, Chapter 2 Page 145 (second numbering) 2 Peter, Chapter 3 Page 145 (second numbering) 1 John, Chapter 1 Page 147 (second numbering) 1 John, Chapter 2 Page 147 (second numbering) 1 John, Chapter 3 Page 148 (second numbering) 1 John, 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Source Note

New Testament Revision 2, ca. 4 Apr. 1831–24 Mar. 1832 and 20–31 July 1832; handwriting of , , , and an unidentified scribe; 206 pages; CHL.
The Bible revision manuscripts remained in JS’s possession throughout his life—except during a brief period in 1838 and another in 1839. Upon the death of JS, the manuscript was in possession of his wife for over twenty years, until 1867 when she gave it to her son so that the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS church) could publish it. It was in the possession of the RLDS church (now Community of Christ) until 2024, when The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints acquired it. The manuscript is now held at the Church History Library in Salt Lake City.
Note: The transcript of New Testament Revision 2 presented here is used with generous permission of the Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center. It was published earlier, with some differences in style, in Scott H. Faulring, Kent P. Jackson, and Robert J. Matthews, eds., Joseph Smith's New Translation of the Bible: Original Manuscripts (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2004), 229–581.

Footnotes

  1. [1]

    Call, “Copied from the Journal of Anson Call,” 9 and Cooper, “Spiritual Reminiscences, No. 2,” Autumn Leaves (January 1891): 18.

    Call, Anson. “Copied from the Journal of Anson Call,” 1879. CHL. MS 4783.

    Cooper, F. M. “Spiritual Reminiscences.—No. 2,” Autumn Leaves 4, no. 1 (Jan. 1891): 17–20.

  2. [2]

    Emma Smith Bidamon, Nauvoo, IL, to Joseph Smith III, Plano, IL, 10 Feb. 1867, CCLA.

    Bidamon, Emma Smith. Materials, 1842–1871. CCLA.

  3. [3]

    The Holy Scriptures: Translated and Corrected by the Spirit of Revelation ([Plano, IL]: [Reorganized] Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1867).

Historical Introduction

As noted in the introduction to Old Testament Revision 1, in June 1830, JS and began recording a revelation related to Moses and other prominent Old Testament figures. (See Visions of Moses, June 1830 [Moses 1].) Eventually this work expanded into what is now designated as the Book of Moses and a complete revelatory re-reading, reviewing, and revising of the Bible, an endeavor that came to be known as JS’s “New Translation,” or Bible revision. By March 1831, JS and his scribes created a sixty-one-page manuscript containing a narrative account of the visions of Moses and a revised version of the Old Testament book of Genesis, from the beginning to chapter 24, verse 41. (See Old Testament Revision 1.)
JS set that work aside when instructed in a March 1831 revelation to instead begin work on the New Testament. (Revelation, ca. 7 Mar. 1831 [D&C 45:60–61].) He and began the new document on 8 March 1831, titling it “A Translation of the New Testament translated by the power of God.” It is currently designated as New Testament Revision 1. , who had been directed by revelation to “write & keep a regulal [regular] history & assist my servant Joseph in Transcribing all things which shall be given him,” (Revelation, ca. 8 Mar. 1831–B [D&C 47:1]) began in early April 1831 to copy New Testament Revision 1 through Matthew 26:1, stopping a little short of where JS and Sidney Rigdon left off before they traveled to in June 1831. (JS History, vol. A-1, 126.)
When JS resumed the revision of the New Testament, he did so using ’s copy, currently designated New Testament Revision 2. He began with Matthew 26:1, though he had previously translated through Matthew 26:71 in New Testament Revision 1. Work continued on the rest of the New Testament through late July 1832. In addition to , JS was assisted by John Whitmer, , and .
New Testament Revision 2, presented here, consists of 203 pages. Work on this manuscript was completed in and , Ohio. During the revision project, JS adopted an abbreviated format for annotating the changes to be made to the New Testament. Previously, JS dictated the entire Bible text to his scribe, revising verses as he read from the Bible. But beginning after John 5, JS marked his copy of the Bible as he read in it, indicating where a change should be made. In the manuscript, the scribes wrote the scripture reference and the specifics of the revisions. Thus, the Bible and manuscript together now constituted the text of the revision project.
In total, JS made changes to about 2,100 New Testament verses (Faulring et al., Joseph Smith’s New Translation of the Bible, 5). He introduced a number of significant changes to the King James New Testament text in New Testament Revision 2. Among the more prominent clarifications and corrections were those in Matthew 24 and Mark 13 related to Jesus’s discourse on the Mount of Olives, as well as those in the beginning verses of the Gospel of John. (See, Faulring et al., Joseph Smith’s New Translation of the Bible, 234, 303, and 424–425.)
Note: The transcript of New Testament Revision 2 presented here is used with generous permission of the Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center. It was published earlier, with some differences in style, in Scott H. Faulring, Kent P. Jackson, and Robert J. Matthews, eds., Joseph Smith's New Translation of the Bible: Original Manuscripts (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2004), 229–581.
Asterisk (*) denotes a "featured" version, which includes an introduction and annotation. New Testament Revision 1 New Testament Revision 2 New Testament Revision, Extract, as Recorded in Cleminson, Record [Matthew 24]

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a piece of new cloth on an old garment; else the new piece take that filled it up taketh away from the old, & the wrent is made worse. & <​And​> no man puteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine doth burst the bottles, & the wine is spilled, & the bottles will be marred; but new wine must be put into New bottles. <​8/​> & <​And​> it came to pass, that he went through the cornfields on the Sabath day; & his deciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of Corn. & <​And​> the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they <​thy Disciples​> on the Sabath day that which is not lawful? & <​And​> he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, & <​was a​> hungered, he, & they that <​who​> were with him? How he went into the house of God, in the days of Abiathar the high Priest, & did eat the shew bread, which is not lawfull to eat but for the Priests, & gave also to them <​9/​> which were with him? <​9/​> & <​And​> he said unto them, The sabath was maid for man, & not man for the Sabath. Wherefore the sabath was given unto man for a day of rest; & also that man should gloryfy God, & not that man should not eat; for the Son of man made the Sabath day, therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the Sabath.
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<​1/​> And he entered again into the Synegouge; & there was a man there that had a withered hand. & <​And​> they watched him to see whether he would <​heal​> him on the Sabathday; that they might accuse him. & <​And​> he saith <​said​> unto the man which had the withered hand, Stand forth. & <​And​> he saith <​said​> unto them, Is it Lawful to do good on the Sabath days, or to do evil? To save life, or to kill? But they held their peace. & <​And​> when he had looked round about on them <​with​> anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith <​said​> unto the man, Stretch forth thy hand. & <​And​> he stretched <​2/​> out his hand; & his hand was restored whole as the other. <​2​> & <​And​> the P[h]arisees went forth, & straitway took counil with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him. But Jesus withdrew himself, with his Deciples, to the seeea <​Sea​>; & a great multitude from Gallilee followed him, & from Jeudea, & from Jerusalem, & from Idumea, & from beyond Jordan; & they about Tyre & Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great things he did, <​3/​> came unto him. <​3/​> & <​And​> he spake unto his Deciples, that a small ship should wait on him, because of the multitude, lest they should throng him. For he had healed many; in somuch that they pressed [p. 12 (second numbering)]
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