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SELECTIONS FROM THE
BOOK OF MOSES
CHAPTER 8
(February 1831)
  28 The aearth was bcorrupt before God, and it was filled with violence.

Footnotes
28a
Rev. 6: 3 (3-4).
  3 And when he had opened the asecond seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.
D&C 77: 7.
  7 Q. What are we to understand by the seven aseals with which it was sealed?
  A. We are to understand that the first seal contains the things of the bfirst thousand years, and the csecond also of the second thousand years, and so on until the seventh.
b
Gen. 6: 11 (11-13).
  11 The earth also was acorrupt before God, and the earth was filled with bviolence.
D&C 10: 21.
  21 And their hearts are acorrupt, and bfull of wickedness and abominations; and they clove ddarkness rather than light, because their edeeds are evil; therefore they will not ask of me.
D&C 112: 23.
  23 Verily, verily, I say unto you, adarkness covereth the earth, and gross darkness the minds of the people, and all flesh has become bcorrupt before my face.