Revelation, 12 March 1832 [D&C 79]
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Source Note
Revelation, , OH, 12 Mar. 1832. Featured version, titled “A Revelation given to March 12th 1832 in Hiram Pordage County Ohio,” copied [between 12 Mar. and ca. 1 Apr. 1832] in Revelation Book 2, p. 12; handwriting of ; CHL. For more complete source information, see the source note for Revelation Book 2.
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Historical Introduction
spent much of late 1831 and early 1832 proselytizing in , , , and . A few weeks after returning to his home in , Ohio, he traveled to , Ohio, where JS was living in the home of and Alice (Elsa) Jacobs Johnson. Carter recorded in his journal that the purpose of his trip was to visit “the Seaer to enquier the will of the Lord concerning my minestry the ensuin[g] season.” On 12 March 1832, JS dictated a revelation directing Carter to preach the gospel again in the eastern . When Carter departed for his new mission on 15 April 1832, he likely had the original manuscript of the revelation or a copy of it in his possession. The revelation was probably originally inscribed by , , or , who served as scribes for JS in 1832. Williams copied the revelation into Revelation Book 2, probably sometime before JS left for on 1 April 1832.
Footnotes
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Carter, Journal, 35–49.
Carter, Gideon Hayden. Journal, Apr.–Dec. 1832. CHL. MS 1732.
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Carter, Journal, 53.
Carter, Gideon Hayden. Journal, Apr.–Dec. 1832. CHL. MS 1732.
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Carter, Journal, 53–54. Carter recorded exact phrases from the revelation when discussing it in his journal. However, his journal appears to be a retrospective account, so he could have obtained a copy of the revelation after his return. (See Carter, Journal, 33–122.)
Carter, Gideon Hayden. Journal, Apr.–Dec. 1832. CHL. MS 1732.
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See Scribal Directory, in JSP, MRB:683–684; Jennings, “Consequential Counselor,” 183; and Faulring et al., Joseph Smith’s New Translation of the Bible, 46–48.
JSP, MRB / Jensen, Robin Scott, Robert J. Woodford, and Steven C. Harper, eds. Manuscript Revelation Books. Facsimile edition. First volume of the Revelations and Translations series of The Joseph Smith Papers, edited by Dean C. Jessee, Ronald K. Esplin, and Richard Lyman Bushman. Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2009.
Jennings, Erin B. “The Consequential Counselor: Restoring the Root(s) of Jesse Gause.” Journal of Mormon History 34 (Spring 2008): 182–227.
Faulring, Scott H., 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.
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