The Restored Scriptures Company
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What exactly is the Restored Version?
The Restored Version is the best LDS Triple Combination ever made. It is the most transparent, the cleanest, and smoothest to read.
What's in the Restored Version?
The Restored Version contains all of the revelations you’d expect to find in the modern LDS triple combination — except with the original words (1828-1844) — and a new, helpful, stylish format where mini-verses are inserted into the paragraph flow. We also added an additional 87 of Joseph Smith’s “uncannonized” and “hear-say" revelations in the back.
1840 Book of Mormon
1844 Doctrine & Covenants with Lectures on Faith
1851 Pearl of Great Price with 87 “unannonized" Smith revelations.
1 Nephi-Moroni.
Sections 1-138.
All 7 lectures.
Abraham-Moses, JST, Smith’s church history, + 87 uncannonized, & a word index.
What makes it better than the modern version?
You get to feel confident that you're reading pure revelation as it was recorded from Smith's mouth, rather than reading what an academic department determined they want in the scriptures over the last 170+ years. Every substantive instance Smith’s editing committee changed the text between 1829-1844, we left a footnote with the most original text, making the RV a truly original set of scriptures, even more transparent than the final version published under Smith's supervision.
You may loose track of time while reading with the RV’s ease-of-use features. The RV has no columns, no cumbersome cross-references, and no paragraph breaks at every verse — just like the originals — and instead has mini-verse numbers in the paragraphs, which provide a smooth, seamless reading experience that invites a spiritual feast.
Read before you buy.
Bound to last.
These scriptures look good, feel comfortable and are bound to last. The Restored scriptures use Quality TPU Leather (we are still chosing the exact leather material and design) that should handle many years of use. It has beautiful gold gilded edges (possibly silver) that catch attention, and are reminiscent of metal plates. It has sturdy, flexible binding making it so the book may comfortably and safely be laid flat on a desk. It has reliable bible paper that is very thin, sturdy, and thick enough that it’s hard to see through. It has Marking ribbons (0-3) so that you never lose your reading place (unless you have curious household cats who like to claw at marker ribbons, jk.).
Why was the Restored Scripture Company created?
The Restored Scripture Company was created, in part, to preserves something beautiul and serve a strong purpose, to keep the iron rod straight. An increasing amount of people are interested in the unaltered revelations of Joseph Smith, and find value in studying the scriptures as they were originally written, so that no prophecy is left out and no words or sentence structures are altered to mean something different. According to Joseph Smith, members of his editing committee were told that they shoud not alter the sense (meaning) of the revelations while revising and editing them.
Additionally, there was a need for a more user-friendly set of original scriptures, a set that could be comfortably used for daily study, used in a communal setting like church meetings, and with modern study aids — all which work best with versification, which photo-reprints of the original scriptures do not have, as verses were added in 1876.
So, you have some questions?
How many differences are there between the modern (1981-2015) LDS triple combination and the Restored Version?
There are thousands of unsubstantial editing changes, but hundreds of substantial changes to pages, paragraphs, sentences and words that sometimes change doctrines or remove them. In the modern LDS triple combination, scholars have literally removed and rewritten much information. For example, the entire Lectures on Faith (which makes up the “doctrine” of Doctrine and Covenants) has been removed in the modern scriptures, but it is in the Restored Version.
Does the Restored Version change any words or punctuation from the originals (1828-1844)?
This may sound a little surprising on it’s face, but yes it does make changes. For example, we modernized the punctuation. However they are no substantial changes (or we dropped a footnote). In the early eighteen hundreds, no standardized linguistic system existed, so punctuation used then is problematic for our day and time. Additionally, scribes also made mistakes copying the text by hand, and type-setters (printers) made mistakes too, so each published edition had user-errors that still needed to be fixed. There are about 1,100 footnotes that mark where earlier manuscripts differed from the final published version during Smith’s lifetime.
Was Smith’s editing committee changing the scriptures, and how much did they change them?
Yes, Smith’s editing committee was changing the scriptures. There are two large reasons for this. First, there was punctuation and revision problems due to the writing, copying, and printing practices at that time. Second, Smith was trying to encapsulate the correct meaning of the doctrines, which he didn’t have the correct words for at times. Smith was also aiming to make the scriptures easier to read, as he removed over thirty instances of “and it came to pass”.
