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Minutes of November 8, 1831
Sidney comments on errors in the commandments. Joseph to correct them. Oliver to edit everything else published in Independence.
 
 
Date   November 8, 1831   FWR, 28–29.
Location   Hiram, Ohio.   This conference is called for in ¶ D&C 58:58.
Description   …a Special Conference …    
Moderator   Joseph Smith    
Clerk  

John Whitmer

   
Elders present     Joseph Smith Jr.
Oliver Cowdery
[29] John Whitmer
Peter Whitmer
Christian Whitmer
Sidney Rigdon
[29] William E. McLellin
Luke Johnson
   
Open   Prayer by Joseph Smith.    
Sidney: revelation errors  

Remarks by br. Sidney Rigdon on the errors or mistakes which are in commandments and revelations, made either by the scribe translation in consequence of the slow way of the scribe at the time of receiving or by the scribes themselves.

 

This context is consistent with D&C 67, which invites those who were holding back to manufacture their own revelation. All in Favor?

Joseph to correct revelations  

Resolved by this conference that Br Joseph Smith Jr. correct those errors or mistakes which he may discover by the holy Spirit while receiving the revelations reviewing the revelations & commandments & also the fulness of the scriptures.

  Before the Book of Commandments is printed, Oliver Cowdery, W. W. Phelps, and John Whitmer are authorized to "select for printing such as shall be deemed by them proper … & make all necessary verbal corrections." Minutes of April 30, 1832 (Literary Firm)

copy, correct, and select: added by Andrew Jenson. FWR, 29n2.
Oliver to edit other printed works  

Resolved by this conference that br Oliver Cowdery shall <copy, correct, and select> all the writings which go forth to the world which go through the Printing press (except) the revelations and commandments, by the Spirit of the Lord and this according to the commandment given in Missouri, July 20, 1831.

 
Close   Prayer by Sidney Rigdon.    
   
Minutes of November 11, 1831
Minutes of November 1–2, 1831
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