Thursday, May 23, 2024

Joseph Smith's "Plainer Translation" of Malachi 4:5-6

In OT ms 2, p. 119, Joseph did not make any changes to the book of Malachi:

 


 

Interestingly, during a sermon on January 21, 1844, Joseph made a “plainer translation” (cf. D&C 128:18) of Mal 4:5-6:

 

The Bible says "I will send you Elijah before the great & dredful day of the Lord come that he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children & the hearts of the children to their fathers lest I come & smite the whole earth with a curse." [Malachi 4:5-6] Now the word turn here should be translated -[bind or seal]- (Wilford Woodruff, Journal, January 21, 1844)