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Doctrine and Convenants: 49. Revelation through Joseph Smith to Sidney Rigdon, Parley P. Pratt, and Leman Copley, Kirtland, Ohio, March 1831.

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Section 49 of the Doctrine and Covenants is a revelatory text from the early Latter-day Saint scriptural canon, presented as direct divine speech addressed to three named missionaries (Sidney, Parley, and Leman) and commanding them to preach to the Shakers, a contemporaneous communal religious movement. The revelation asserts that the Shakers possess partial truth but err in key doctrines, and it corrects those errors explicitly: it affirms that Christ has not yet returned in human form (countering Shaker belief in Ann Lee as a female Christ), that marriage is ordained of God and celibacy is therefore not divinely required, and that eating meat is lawful. It presents core restoration-era LDS theology — Christ's atoning mission, the necessity of repentance and baptism, the gift of the Holy Ghost through laying on of hands, and Christ's imminent but temporally unknowable Second Coming — framed as authoritative correction of Shaker practice. A distinctive economic note appears briefly: the text condemns unequal accumulation of wealth as sin. The section closes with apocalyptic imagery of cosmic upheaval preceding the Second Coming, alongside a millennial promise that Zion and the Lamanites will flourish, before ending with a divine self-identification as Jesus Christ.

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