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This was not a composition. This was dictated, word by word, as he looked into instruments the Lord prepared for him, using a hat to shield his eyes from extraneous light in order to plainly see the words as they appeared. Contrary to one who translates with the use of a dictionary, as it were, the translation was revelation flowing to him from heaven, and written by scribes (with the inevitable scrivener errors). <ref>Marcus B. Nash, [https://history.lds.org/article/lecture-joseph-smith-marcus-nash?lang=eng "‘Out of Weakness He Shall Be Made Strong’",] 70th Annual Joseph Smith Memorial Devotional (history.lds.org) (3 June 2013).<ref>{{read more|url=https://history.lds.org/article/lecture-joseph-smith-marcus-nash?lang=eng}} | This was not a composition. This was dictated, word by word, as he looked into instruments the Lord prepared for him, using a hat to shield his eyes from extraneous light in order to plainly see the words as they appeared. Contrary to one who translates with the use of a dictionary, as it were, the translation was revelation flowing to him from heaven, and written by scribes (with the inevitable scrivener errors). <ref>Marcus B. Nash, [https://history.lds.org/article/lecture-joseph-smith-marcus-nash?lang=eng "‘Out of Weakness He Shall Be Made Strong’",] 70th Annual Joseph Smith Memorial Devotional (history.lds.org) (3 June 2013).</ref>{{read more|url=https://history.lds.org/article/lecture-joseph-smith-marcus-nash?lang=eng}} | ||
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Marcus B. Nash:
This was not a composition. This was dictated, word by word, as he looked into instruments the Lord prepared for him, using a hat to shield his eyes from extraneous light in order to plainly see the words as they appeared. Contrary to one who translates with the use of a dictionary, as it were, the translation was revelation flowing to him from heaven, and written by scribes (with the inevitable scrivener errors). [1]—(Click here to read more)

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