What
happened to the scrolls (which became the text for the Pearl of Great Price)
that were purchased with the Egyptian mummies by Joseph Smith during the
Kirtland years?
A)
Given back to the Egyptians
B)
Burned in the great Chicago fire of 1871
C)
Found in a New York museum and given what
was left to the Church
D)
Given to the Angel Moroni
Yesterday’s answer:
(C)
Abraham and Joseph
The public press
indicated that two of the mummies that Joseph Smith purchased in 1835 were the
mummified bodies of Joseph and Abraham. It was necessary for Joseph Smith to
put that rumor down since neither Abraham nor Joseph was left buried in Egypt.
Commercial Bulletin
and Missouri Literary Register, St. Louis, Missouri, October 12, 1835.
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