This Covenant Christian Edition of the Restoration Scriptures improves navigation within the Old Testament by reintroducing the traditional KJV chapter and verse numbering system. At the same time, it preserves the paragraph structure and presentation of the text, which helps keep principles and ideas together and avoids the fragmentation that can occur when material is divided into very small one- or two-sentence sections.
KJV navigation aids appear as red headers on the left-hand pages, with red chapter and verse numbers shown inline, making them easy to locate while reading. In the early Genesis chapters, dual headers on the left-hand pages also allow readers to navigate the included Book of Moses text within Genesis. This edition also includes corrections identified after the first edition was printed.
As one of his most important works, Joseph Smith Jr. spent years making inspired clarifications to the Bible text; however, he was killed before it could be published. Here, for the first time, every known emendation that he wrote or taught has been assembled into the most complete version of Joseph Smith's New Translation of the Bible.
In October 1831, Joseph Smith said "except the church receive the fullness of the scriptures that they would yet fall." From that time until his death in 1844, Joseph Smith worked diligently to prepare an edition of the Bible that could be received by the church, and in the process greatly expand the religious understanding of Christians and Christianity of his day. Using a unique spiritual gift, he inquired of God and received thousands of inspired corrections and clarifications, including many pages of text that had been long since removed from Genesis and other parts of the Bible. However, he was murdered before completing the work, and with the scattering of his notes following his death, it was never published in its entirety.
Known at the time as the "fullness of the scriptures" and subsequently the "Inspired Version" or the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), portions of Joseph Smith's New Translation of the Bible were collected and published at various times, usually together with hundreds of alterations that were not the work of Joseph Smith. Because no single church, institution or collection had access to all of his journals, notebooks, papers and letters, his inspired work on the project was never gathered and published in a single edition, until now.
Early Christian reforms, and the availability of the Holy Bible changed the world. But reform and translation alone could not, and cannot, restore lost knowledge or recover unaltered sacred texts. For that, inspiration and revelation from heaven itself is necessary. Joseph Smith answered the call. He was unequaled in his day as a leading religious figure, and his name has been held for both good and evil by Christians worldwide. These scriptures are a new witness of Christ and a sign of His invitation to renew communication with mankind.
The Covenant Christian Edition of the Restoration Scriptures is comprised of the following volumes:
VOLUME 1: OLD COVENANTS
Part 1: The Old Testament, Genesis - 1 Chronicles
Part 2: The Old Testament, 2 Chronicles - Malachi
VOLUME 2: NEW COVENANTS
Book 1: The New Testament
Book 2: The Book of Mormon
Book 3: A Glossary of Gospel Terms
VOLUME 3: MODERN COVENANTS
Book 1: Teachings & Commandments
Book 2: Covenant of Christ
This is Part 1 of Volume 1, which together with Part 2 constitutes a single volume named The Old Covenants because it includes not only the traditional Old Testament, but also the Book of Moses which recovers and restores information about the covenants that were established with Adam, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, and Moses.
