June 1830

Colesville, New York
Joseph Smith received by revelation what is now the first chapter of the book of Moses in the Pearl of Great Price.
Sources: 
History of the Church, Joseph Smith, 1:98-101
Sustaining the Law: Joseph Smith's Legal Encounters Gordon A. Madsen, Jeffrey N. Walker, and John W. Welch, 
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