June 20, 1868;
Saturday
The School of the
Prophets met at 1 p.m. President [Brigham] Young spoke of the new translation
of the Bible and said it was not complete. Dr. [John M.] Bernhisel testified
that the Prophet [Joseph Smith] told him that he wishes to revise it. Emma Smith
let Dr. Bernhisel have the new translation to peruse it, for three months;
during this time the Doctor copied much of it. Orson Pratt compared many of the
sayings in the new and old translations. George A. Smith testified that he had
heard the prophet Joseph say, before his death, that the new translation was
not complete; that he had not been able to prepare it, and that it was probably
providentially so. (Salt Lake School of the Prophets, 1867-1883 [ed. Devery S.
Anderson; Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2018], 23-24)