32: Book of Abraham, Part 3: A look at the text itself
LDS Discussions - Mormon Truth Claims Examined
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Mike and Emo want to take a stab at explaining what we just heard. Mike: Joseph Smith is basically saying that Genesis is two different sources, so now he's going to take this text out of the Bible for some kind of technical and scholarly analysis. We have chapter 2 of Abram in which God says get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred and from thy father's house unto a land that I will show thee. Now if we jump then to the actual book of Abraham that Joseph Smith produces in Kirtland, Ohio, watch what happens. It not only is the story all presented in first person as if Abraham himself is now telling the account, unlike Moses.
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