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Welcome to Talking Scripture. I'm Mike. And I'm Bryce. And today we're going to be in section 18 of the Doctrine and Covenants. Now, this section comes at an important time in church history.

It's June of 1829. The Book of Mormon has been

translated. We're now working on what's called the printer's manuscript, where Oliver has to sit down

with a pen or an inkwell type pen, a feather, basically, and rewrite the entire book of Mormon.

Now, Bryce, why are we doing a printer's manuscript?

Because we've learned from the loss of the manuscript that we're never letting this out of our possession ever again.

So we're going to take the original, we're going to write a copy, we're going to let that copy go to the printer, because if that is ever lost, it's okay.

We've got the original.

Joseph has learned a great lesson

and is determined never to lose that manuscript again. You know, Bryce, one time I talked to you,

and I don't remember what the context was, we were talking about Royal Scalzin, and we were talking

about the differences between the printer's manuscript and the original manuscript. And I think

you said something like... The errors in the original manuscript are obvious errors of hearing the wrong word. They're

auditory errors. Like he heard the word read and wrote the word weed. Now, if I was looking at the

word read, I would never write the word weed, an R and a W, but if I were hearing

the word read, I could very easily have heard the wrong word and write the word weed. So the errors

in the original manuscript are obvious errors of hearing.

Yeah.

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