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The earliest dated section in the Doctrine and Covenants consists of words spoken to Joseph Smith by the angel Moroni in 1823, when the Smith family lived near Palmyra, New York. During that visit, Moroni shared several important prophecies from the Old and New Testaments, including one from Malachi about the promised mission of the prophet Elijah in the latter days.
- Book of Commandments, 1833
- Doctrine and Covenants, 1835 Edition
- 1844 Edition
- 1876 Edition
- 1921 Edition
- 1981 Edition
- 2013 Edition
Printed in Independence, Missouri.In July 1833, mobs destroyed the printing press and building partway through the printing.From the saved pages, 64 and a half chapters — as the sections were called then — were included.Sold for 25 cents each, and the owner bound his or her copy.Printed in Kirtland, Ohio, in 1835.Contained the seven Lectures on Faith (the doctrine) and 103 revelations (the covenants).Accepted by the Church on Aug. 17, 1835.Included “the Appendix,” now known as Section 133.Printed in Nauvoo, Illinois.103 sections in the 1835 edition, plus 7 additional items.Section 111, now Section 135, a tribute to Joseph and Hyrum Smith, was added during the printing and printed in smaller text so that it would fit on the page at the end of the book.Elder Orson Pratt, then the Church historian, worked on the new edition.Sections were reordered to be in rough chronological order.26 new sections were added, including sections 2, 13, 109, 110, 121-123, 132 and 136.Verse sizes and section headings changed.A committee of 5 apostles — Elders George F. Richards, Anthony W. Ivins, Joseph Fielding Smith, James E. Talmage and Melvin J. Ballard — reviewed the Doctrine and Covenants.They recommended adding 20 sections, but none were added. (It’s not known precisely which sections those were.)Wilford Woodruff’s Manifesto was labeled as an “Official Declaration.” (It had been included in recent printings.)Lectures on Faith removed.2 revelations that were in the Pearl of Great Price in 1976 — Joseph Smith’s vision of the celestial kingdom and Joseph F. Smith’s 1918 vision of the redemption of the dead — were added as sections...The 1978 revelation on the priesthood was included as a second official declaration.Footnotes were changed to correspond with the Latter-day Saint edition of the English Bible, which was published for the first time in 1979.Section headings altered to incorporate new historical research, primarily through the Joseph Smith Papers project.Historical introductions to the official declarations added.Minor spelling and punctuation errors corrected.Footnote and index errors corrected.The left column identifies the editorial title of each text in the modern edition of the Doctrine and Covenants, and the right column lists the section (and sometimes verse) numbers where each text is found. The table includes entries for the two official declarations (OD1 and OD2) that are appended to the Doctrine and Covenants.
Document Title With DateSection NumberRevelation, July 18283Revelation, February 18294Revelation, March 18295Revelation, April 1829–A6This section was first added to the book of Doctrine and Covenants as an appendix and was subsequently assigned a section number. Doctrine and Covenants 134 A declaration of belief regarding governments and laws in general, adopted by unanimous vote at a general assembly of the Church held at Kirtland, Ohio, August 17, 1835.
Oct 30, 2020 · 120. Revelation, 8 July 1838–D. 121. Excerpted from Letter to the Church and Edward Partridge, 20 March 1839. 122. Excerpted from Letter to Edward Partridge and the Church, circa 22 March 1839, a continuation of the 20 March 1839 letter. 123. Excerpted from same letter as section 122. 124.
May 27, 2011 · Doctrine and Covenants: Section 124. Author: RICHARDS, PAUL C. Section 124,given January 19, 1841, to the Prophet Joseph Smith, is the longest revelation in the Doctrine and Covenants. It was the first section received at Nauvoo, Illinois, and was first printed in the 1844 edition of the Doctrine and Covenants as number 103.
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The Doctrine and Covenants (sometimes abbreviated and cited as D&C or D. and C.) is a part of the open scriptural canon of several denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement. Originally published in 1835 as Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of the Latter Day Saints: Carefully Selected from the Revelations of God, editions of the book ...
