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This book is an electronic reprint of the Saint James, Michigan edition of 1856. That edition was never bound with a title page, testimony, or preface before James J. Strang was killed in 1856. Therefore, this reprint has a testimony typeset from the earlier Saint James edition of 1851. That forerunner of 1851 comprised just 80 pages, and was titled: //The Book of the Law of the Lord, Consisting of an Inspired Translation of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Law Given to Moses, and a Very Few Additional Commandments, With Brief Notes and References.// The later edition of 1856 comprised 320 pages (17-336), and contained ten new chapters and numerous and valuable notes. The title page of this 1997 edition is conjectural, derived from the edition of 1851 and an announcement of publication in the //Daily Northern Islander// in 1856. This edition has been taken from the 1987 electronic version by James D. Hajicek. In a few places the count of words and letters was corrected in that version. ====== || > || > ====== This is the rare 1851 preliminary pamphlet edition, 80 pages long, of which only 200 copies printed. For years there was no copy known, until Yale University finally acquired one. This copy belonging to bishop Gilbert Watson has since been added to the Hajicek collection. ====== || > || > || > ====== In 1856, [|the expanded 336 page edition of the Book of the Law of the Lord] was laying in folded but uncut sheets in the printing office on Beaver Island. A mob pied the type and destroyed the press, but the apostles rescued the sheets and hid them in trunks like this one belonging to Warren Post in the Hajicek collection. ====== ||
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**T E S T I M O N Y .** Be it known unto all nations, kindreds, tongues and people, to whom this Book of the Law of the Lord shall come, that James J. Strang has the plates of the ancient Book of the Law of the Lord given to Moses, from which he translated this law, and has shown them to us. We examined them with our eyes, and handled them with our hands. The engravings are beautiful antique workmanship, bearing a striking resemblance to the ancient oriental languages; and those from which the laws in this book were translated are eighteen in number, about seven inches and three-eights wide, by nine inches long, occasionally embellished with beautiful pictures. And we testify unto you all that the everlasting kingdom of God is established, in which this law shall be kept, till it brings in rest and everlasting righteousness to all the faithful. >>>>> SAMUEL GRAHAM, >>>>> SAMUEL P. BACON, >>>>> WARREN POST, >>>>> PHINEAS WRIGHT, >>>>> ALBERT N. HOSMER, >>>>> EBENEZER PAGE, >>>>> JEHIEL SAVAGE. 

|||||| **T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S .** ||
 * CHAPT. || SUBJECT. || PAGE. ||
 * || Testimony ||  ||
 * I. || The Decalogue || 17 ||
 * II. || The True God || 47 ||
 * III. || Oaths || 87 ||
 * IV. || Benedictions || 98 ||
 * V. || Maledictions || 100 ||
 * VI. || Prayer || 102 ||
 * VII. || Thanksgiving || 104 ||
 * VIII. || Sacrifice || 106 ||
 * IX. || Monuments || 110 ||
 * X. || Blessing of Infants || 114 ||
 * XI. || Baptism || 116 ||
 * XII. || Baptism for the Dead || 136 ||
 * XIII. || Confirmation || 142 ||
 * XIV. || Eucharist || 145 ||
 * XV. || Marriage || 159 ||
 * XVI. || Healing || 160 ||
 * XVII. || Absolution || 162 ||
 * XVIII. || Ordination || 163 ||
 * XIX. || Adoption || 167 ||
 * XX. || Calling of a King || 168 ||
 * XXI. || Duty of the King || 177 ||
 * XXII. || Abstinence of the King || 179 ||
 * XXIII. || Viceroys || 181 ||
 * XXIV. || King's Council || 183 ||
 * XXV. || King's Court || 185 ||
 * XXVI. || City Court || 187 ||
 * XXVII. || Municipalities || 188 ||
 * XXVIII. || Twelve Apostles || 191 ||
 * XXIX. || High Priests || 193 ||
 * XXX. || Seventies || 194 ||
 * XXXI. || Elders || 196 ||
 * XXXII. || Priests || 198 ||
 * XXXIII. || Teachers || 200 ||
 * XXXIV. || Deacons || 202 ||
 * XXXV. || Establishment of the Law || 203 ||
 * XXXVI. || Priesthood || 214 ||
 * XXXVII. || Place of Your Dwellings || 283 ||
 * XXXVIII. || Groves, Forests, and Waters || 286 ||
 * XXXIX. || Apparel and Ornaments || 288 ||
 * XL. || Feasts || 291 ||
 * XLI. || Inheritances || 298 ||
 * XLII. || Descent of Inheritances || 300 ||
 * XLIII. || Social Order || 305 ||
 * XLIV. || Household Relations || 310 ||
 * XLV. || Highways || 329 ||
 * XLVI. || Tithing || 331 ||
 * XLVII. || Payment of Debts || 335 ||
 * Chapter II. was written by the prophet James, by inspiration of God. ||
 * The first six sections of Chapter XX. were written by the prophet James, by inspiration of God, and the nine following sections are the words of the angel of God when he conferred upon James J. Strang the prophetic authority, and made him the chief shepherd of the flock of God on earth. ||
 * Chapter XXXV. is a revelation given Feb., 1851. ||
 * Chapter XL. is a revelation given Feb., 1851, except the first two sections. ||
 * The first three sections of Chapter XLI. are a revelation from God, given to James J. Strang, July 8th, 1850. ||
 * With these five exceptions all the other chapters of this book were translated from the plates of Laban, taken from the house of Laban, in Jerusalem, in the days of Zedekiah, king of Judah. ||