As you read the Doctrine in Covenants, Section 10 seems out of place chronologically.

Since it talks about Martin Harris in the translation of the 116 pages, shouldn't it come after

Section 3? What happened? We'll tell you today.

Welcome, our dear friends, to Meridian Magazine's Come Follow Me podcast.

We are Scott and Maureen Proctor, and we are excited to talk today about Doctrine and Covenants,

Sections 10 and 11, that ye may come off Conqueror.

The reason Section 10 is not right after Section 3 is that there has been some confusion

in the past about the date the Revelation was received. Originally, the date of Section 10

was listed as May 1829, putting it in between the dates for Sections 9 and 11. Yet the prophet Joseph himself said section 10 was the first

revelation he received immediately after the plates were returned to him on the 22nd of September 1828.

In 1921, when B.H. Roberts and the committee put together the 1921 edition of the Doctrine of Covenants,

they recognized that previous editions were based on a date miscalculation, but they left it as it was.

The section should go, section 3, section 10, and then section 4.

Though we've talked about Oliver Cowdery, we are moving back a bit in our story to when

Martin Harris lost the pages. After Martin left, Lucy MacSmith described Joseph's emotional state.

She said,

I besought him not to mourn so, for it might be that the Lord would forgive him,

after a short season of humiliation and repentance on his part. But what could I say to comfort him when he saw all the family in the same state of mind that he was. Our sobs and groans and the

most bitter lamentations filled the house. Joseph in particular was more distressed than the rest,

for he knew definitely and by sorrowful experience the consequence of what would seem to others

to be a very trifling neglect

of duty. He continued walking backwards and forwards, weeping and grieving like a tender infant

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