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Doctrine & Covenants 17
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Doctrine & Covenants
/ Section 17
D&C Text
Read the Text at ChurchofJesusChrist.org
Earliest Manuscript at JosephSmithPapers.org
Context Helps
Historical Context and Background of D&C 17
Timeline of Events in Fayette, New York
Brief Biography of Oliver Cowdery
Brief Biography of Martin Harris
Brief Biography of David Whitmer
Verse-Level Helps
Verses 1-4
Verses 5-9
Additional Helps
Relevant Talks, Articles, Book Chapters
Book: Richard Lloyd Anderson, Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses (Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 1981)
D&C 14-17 Resource Guide at ChurchofJesusChrist.org
"Fellow Servants," Saints, Volume 1
"The Experience of the Three Witnesses," by Larry E. Morris
"Witnesses: Those Who Assist to Bring Forth This Work," by A. Bryan Weston
"A Multiplicity of Witnesses: Women and the Translation Process," by Amy Easton-Flake and Rachel Cope
"Personal Writings of the Book of Mormon Witnesses," by Richard Lloyd Anderson
KnoWhy #54 - Who Are the “Few” Who Were Permitted to See the Plates?
KnoWhy #267 - Why Were Three Witnesses Chosen to Testify of the Book of Mormon?
KnoWhy #395 - Why Is David Whitmer’s Witness of the Book of Mormon So Compelling?
KnoWhy #403 - Are the Accounts of the Golden Plates Believable?
KnoWhy #405 - Why Were the Three Witnesses Shown the Liahona?
KnoWhy #409 - Is There Evidence That Joseph Smith Possessed a Urim and Thummim and Breastplate?
KnoWhy #417 - Were Joseph Smith’s Translation Instruments Like the Israelite Urim and Thummim?
KnoWhy #521 - Did the Book of Mormon Witnesses Really See What They Claimed?
KnoWhy #596 - Why Did the Lord Command the Three Witnesses to Rely upon His Word?
John W. Welch's Themes
Book of Mormon Witnesses
Location Where D&C 17 was Received
Video Helps
Related Images
Rebuilt Whitmer Home
Photo Credit: Kenneth Mays, 2003
Woods Near the Whitmer Home Site
Photo Credit: Kenneth Mays, 2017
Three Witnesses
Retouched and colorized by Bryce M Haymond
Joseph and the Three Witnesses
Photo Credit: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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