The Restorative 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 text you’d expect to find in the modern LDS triple combination — except with the original words (1828-1844) and a smooth format — We also restored Lectures on Faith (removed from the D&C in 1921), added an additional 87 of Joseph Smith’s “uncannonized” and “hear-say" revelations in the back, and inside the appendix we added one hundred revelations received by Brigham Young, John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, Lorenzo Snow and Joseph F. Smith.
Incredible, right?
1840 Book of Mormon
1844 Doctrine & Covenants with Lectures on Faith
1851 Pearl of Great Price with 87 “unannonized" Smith revelations.
1 Nephi-Moroni.
All sections (1-138).
All 7 Lectures on Faith
Abraham-Moses, JST, Smith’s actual church history, + 87 uncanonized + 100 "Early Brethren" revelations, & a word index.
Three Main Benefits of the RV.
1. Spiritually significant - The RV contains more truth and light than prior editions, resulting in an increase in spiritual intelligence, fostering individual relationships with God.
2. Historically significant - The RV contains Joseph Smith's earliest and latest published revelations. While the foundational text of the RV is 1840-1844, 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.
3. Formatted significantly - The RV contains 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 makes it easy to lose track of time while reading and easier to see the larger narrative within the scriptures. After reading the RV, it can be challenging to return to choppy verses on columns.
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.).
Making the best use of the historical footnotes
1 Nephi 15:35 (modern)
"the devil is the preparator of it"
1 Nephi 15:35 (Restored Version - 1840)
"the devil is the foundation of it"
1 Nephi 15:35 (Footnote in Restored Version)
"Joseph Smith replaced 'Prepriator' with 'father', in his own handwriting, when revising the printers manuscript.
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”.
