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Date: April 23, 2017 02:48PM
"And now if there are faults, they are the mistakes of men; wherefore condemn not the things of God, that ye may be found spotless at the judgment-seat of Christ."
I was at the Nevada State Museum in Las Vegas today and came across an old BOM with it's cover open to the front page. So I took a picture of the text and transcribed it for you here. Don't know the date on the book, but it was a thick, pocket sized book.
"The Book of Mormon:
And account written by the hand of Mormon upon plates taken from the plates of Nephi.
Wherefore it is an abridgment of the record of the people of Nephi and also of the Laminates; written to the Laminates , who are a remnant of the house of Isreal; and also to Jew and Gentile: written by way of commandment, and also by the spirit of prophecy and of revelation. Written, and sealed up, and hid up unto the Lord, that they might not be destroyed; to come forth by the gift and power of God unto the interpretation thereof: sealed by the hand of Moroni, and hid up unto the Lord, to come forth in due time by the way of Gentile; the interpretation thereof by the gift of God:
And abridgment taken from the book of Ether: also, which is a record of the people of Jared; who were scattered at the time the Lord confounded the language of the people when they were building a tower to get to heaven; which is to she unto the remnant of the house of Isreal what great they nags the Lord hath done for their fathers; and that they may know the covenants of the Lord, that they are not cast off for ever: and also to the convincing of the Jew and Gentile that Jesus is the Christ, the Eternal God, manifesting himself unto all nations. And now if there are faults, they are the mistakes of men; wherefore condemn not the things of God, that ye may be found spotless at the judgment-seat of Christ.
Translated by Joseph Smith, Jun.
First European, from the Second American Edition."