As you read what God said to Moses and to Abraham, ponder what He might also be saying to you.
Moses 1: God reveals Himself to Moses—Moses is transfigured—He is confronted by Satan—Moses sees many inhabited worlds—Worlds without number were created by the Son—God’s work and glory is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.
Abraham 3: Abraham learns about the sun, moon, and stars by means of the Urim and Thummim—The Lord reveals to him the eternal nature of spirits—He learns of pre-earth life, foreordination, the Creation, the choosing of a Redeemer, and the second estate of man.
Resources on ChurchofJesusChrist.org
Come, Follow Me—For Individuals and Families (lesson materials at ChurchofJesusChrist.org)
Come, Follow Me—For Sunday School (lesson materials at ChurchofJesusChrist.org)
Come, Follow Me—For Primary (lesson materials at ChurchofJesusChrist.org)
“I Am a Child of God,” Children’s Songbook, 2–3.
Thoughts to Keep in Mind: Reading the Old Testament
The Creation – Genesis 1–2; Moses 2–3; Abraham 4–5, Liahona – Come, Follow Me: Doctrine and Covenants
Additional Material on ChurchofJesusChrist.org
Chapter 01: Before the Old Testament
- Old Testament Seminary Student Material: Lesson 6: Moses 1:1–23
- Old Testament Seminary Student Material: Lesson 7: Moses 1:24–42
- Old Testament Seminary Student Material: Lesson 24: Abraham 3
- Old Testament Study Guide for Home-Study Seminary Students: Unit 2: Day 1, Moses 1
- Old Testament Study Guide for Home-Study Seminary Students: Unit 5: Day 1, Abraham 3
- The Pearl of Great Price Institute Student Manual: Moses 1:1–11
- The Pearl of Great Price Institute Student Manual: Moses 1:12–23
- The Pearl of Great Price Institute Student Manual: Moses 1:24–42
- The Pearl of Great Price Institute Student Manual: Abraham 3:1–28>
Resources on Interpreter Foundation
- Come, Follow Me Study and Teaching Helps — Lesson 1: Moses 1; Abraham 3, Jonn Claybaugh
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Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me Old Testament Lesson 1 (Moses 1; Abraham 3)
- Nibley Lectures: Come, Follow Me Old Testament Lesson 1 (Moses 1; Abraham 3)
Additional Posts & Roundtables on the Interpreter Foundation Website
- Book of Moses Bibliography, Interpreter Foundation
- Book of Moses Essays, Book of Mormon Central Staff, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, and others, July 12, 1905
- Introduction to the Book of Moses, Book of Mormon Central Staff and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, May 2, 2020
- Book of Moses FAQ, Book of Mormon Central Staff and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, May 9, 2020
- Essay #45: Moses 1: A Literary Masterpiece. Chiasmus in Moses 1 (Moses 1), Book of Mormon Central Staff and Mark J. Johnson, March 6, 2021
- Essay #44: Moses 1: A Literary Masterpiece. Hebrew Literary Features of Moses 1 (Moses 1), Book of Mormon Central Staff and Mark J. Johnson, February 27, 2021
- Essay #43: Moses 1: A Literary Masterpiece. Many-Great Waters and Moses’ Mission to Baptize (Moses 1:25-26), Book of Mormon Central Staff, Matthew L. Bowen, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, February 20, 2021
- Essay #42: Moses 1 in Its Ancient Context: “The Words of God” (Moses 1:1–7, 35, 40–42), Book of Mormon Central Staff, Matthew L. Bowen, and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, February 13, 2021
- Essay #41: Moses 1 in Its Ancient Context: Moses in the Presence of God (Moses 1:31, chapters 2-4), Book of Mormon Central Staff, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Matthew L. Bowen, David J. Larsen, and Stephen T. Whitlock, February 6, 2021
- Essay #40: Moses 1 in Its Ancient Context: Moses’ Vision at the Veil (Moses 1:27–30), Book of Mormon Central Staff, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Matthew L. Bowen, David J. Larsen, and Stephen T. Whitlock, January 30, 2021
- Essay #39: Moses 1 in Its Ancient Context: The Names of Moses as “Keywords” (Moses 1:25), Book of Mormon Central Staff, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Matthew L. Bowen, David J. Larsen, and Stephen T. Whitlock, January 23, 2021
- Essay #38: Moses 1 in Its Ancient Context: Moses Passes Through the Heavenly Veil (Moses 1:25–27), Book of Mormon Central Staff, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David J. Larsen, and Stephen T. Whitlock, January 16, 2021
- Essay #37: Moses 1 in Its Ancient Context: Moses Ascends to Heaven (Moses 1:24), Book of Mormon Central Staff, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David J. Larsen, and Stephen T. Whitlock, January 9, 2021
- Essay #36: Moses 1 in Its Ancient Context: Moses Defeats Satan (Moses 1:12–23), Book of Mormon Central Staff, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David J. Larsen, and Stephen T. Whitlock, January 2, 2021
- Essay #35: Moses 1 in Its Ancient Context: Moses Falls to the Earth (Moses 1:9-11), Book of Mormon Central Staff, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David J. Larsen, and Stephen T. Whitlock, November 26, 2020
- Essay #34: Moses 1 in Its Ancient Context: Moses in the Spirit World (Moses 1:1–8), Book of Mormon Central Staff, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David J. Larsen, and Stephen T. Whitlock, November 19, 2020
- Essay #33: Moses 1 in Its Ancient Context: Moses 1 as a “Missing” Prologue to Genesis (Moses 1), Book of Mormon Central Staff, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David J. Larsen, and Stephen T. Whitlock, November 12, 2020
- Essay #32: Moses 1 in Its Ancient Context: The Two-Part Pattern of Heavenly and Ritual Ascent (Moses 1), Book of Mormon Central Staff and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, November 5, 2020
- Essay #31: Moses 1 in Its Ancient Context: Heavenly Ascent and Ritual Ascent (Moses 1), Book of Mormon Central Staff and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, October 28, 2020
- Book of Moses Textual Criticism 3: Was the Book of Moses Simply an Unplanned Afterthought to Moses 1?, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, September 10, 2020
- KnoWhy OTL07A — If “All Are Alike Unto God,” Why Were Special Promises Reserved for Abraham’s Seed?, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, February 12, 2018
- KnoWhy OTL01A — Why Did Moses Seem to Repeat the Same Experience Twice in His Vision?, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, January 6, 2018
- “Thou Wast Chosen Before Thou Wast Born” Abraham 3; Moses 4:1-4, Taylor Halverson, July 4, 2013
- KnoWhy OTL03A — What Can the Architecture of Israelite Temples Teach Us About Creation and the Garden of Eden?, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, January 8, 2018
- Enoch, the Book of Moses, and the Book of Giants, S. Kent Brown, May 17, 2021
- In God’s Image and Likeness 2 — Preface and Introduction, Administration, March 2, 2020
- Science and Genesis: A Personal View, Administration, November 2, 2019
- Raising the Abrahamic Discourse: An Essay on the Nature of Dialogues About the Book of Abraham, Kerry Muhlestein, August 25, 2020
- Scholarly Support for the Book of Abraham, Administration, August 25, 2020
- The Book of Abraham with Robin Scott Jensen, LDS Perspectives, October 7, 2018
- John Gee’s “Introduction to the Book of Abraham”: A Lifetime of Book of Abraham Scholarship Distilled into a Valuable Book for a Broad Audience, Jeff Lindsay, October 10, 2017
- Book Review: An Introduction to the Book of Abraham, Stephen O. Smoot, September 29, 2017
- Stephen Smoot on “The Book of the Dead as a Temple Text and Its Implications for the Book of Abraham”, Administration, May 11, 2015
- "By His Own Hand, Upon Papyrus": Another Look, Stephen O. Smoot, October 14, 2013
- Iconotropy and the JS Abraham Facsimiles, William J. Hamblin, April 7, 2013
Articles in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
- “Strong Like unto Moses”: The Case for Ancient Roots in the Book of Moses Based on Book of Mormon Usage of Related Content Apparently from the Brass Plates, Jeff Lindsay and Noel B. Reynolds, March 26, 2021
- Textual Criticism and the Book of Moses: A Response to Colby Townsend’s “Returning to the Sources,” Part 1 of 2, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Matthew L. Bowen and Ryan Dahle, 16, 2020
- The Visions of Moses and Joseph Smith’s Bible Translation, Kent P. Jackson, 12, 2020
- Times of Reckoning and Set Times in Abraham 3, J. Ward Moody, June 26, 2020
- The Lost Prologue: Reading Moses Chapter One as an Ancient Text, Mark J. Johnson, March 20, 2020
- “And They Shall Be Had Again”: Onomastic Allusions to Joseph in Moses 1:41 in View of the So-called Canon Formula, Matthew L. Bowen, June 21, 2019
- Joseph Knew First: Moses, the Egyptian Son, Nathan J. Arp, May 10, 2019
- A Note on Chiasmus in Abraham 3:22-23, Julie M. Smith, January 31, 2014
- The Scale of Creation in Space and Time, John S. Lewis, November 27, 2013
- The Scale of Creation in Space and Time, John S. Lewis, November 27, 2013
- The Sôd of YHWH and the Endowment, William J. Hamblin, April 12, 2013
- An Early Christian Context for the Book of Moses, David M. Calabro, September 20, 2021
- Mormon, Moses, and the Representation of Reality, Richard L. Bushman, August 16, 2021
- Adam, Eve, the Book of Moses, and the Temple: The Story of Receiving Christ’s Atonement, Bruce C. Hafen and Marie K. Hafen, July 19, 2021
- Moses 1 and the Apocalypse of Abraham: Twin Sons of Different Mothers?, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David J. Larsen and Stephen T. Whitlock, July 24, 2020
- Scriptures through the Jeweler’s Lens, Mark J. Johnson, February 28, 2020
- The Brass Plates Version of Genesis, Noel B. Reynolds, October 15, 2019
- Sorting Out the Sources in Scripture, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, April 4, 2014
- Framing the Book of Abraham: Presumptions and Paradigms, Stephen O. Smoot, September 24, 2021
- Fantasy and Reality in the Translation of the Book of Abraham, John Gee, January 29, 2021
- Prolegomena to a Study of the Egyptian Alphabet Documents in the Joseph Smith Papers, John Gee, January 22, 2021
- “We May Not Understand Our Words”: The Book of Abraham and the Concept of Translation in The Pearl of Greatest Price, John S. Thompson, October 13, 2020
- The Joseph Smith Papers Project Stumbles, John Gee, August 23, 2019
- A Precious Resource with Some Gaps, Jeff Lindsay, July 19, 2019
- Pressing Forward with the Book of Abraham, Stephen O. Smoot, April 20, 2018
- Assessing the Joseph Smith Papyri: An Introduction to the Historiography of their Acquisitions, Translations, and Interpretations, Kerry Muhlestein, September 23, 2016
- Shulem, One of the King’s Principal Waiters, John Gee, April 29, 2016
- Mormonism and the Scientific Persistence of Circles: Aristotle, Spacetime, and One Eternal Round, Elizabeth Nielson, April 15, 2016
- One Day to a Cubit, Hollis R. Johnson, February 15, 2013
Resources on Other Sites
- Sunday School general presidency on ‘Come, Follow Me’ 2022 on the Old Testament, Church News
- Old Testament Minute: Genesis: Moses Introduction, by Jeff Bradshaw, Bible Central
- Old Testament Minute: Genesis: Moses 1, by Jeff Bradshaw, Bible Central
- Is There a Conflict Between Science and Religion (Preparing for Come, Follow Me – Old Testament), Book of Mormon Central
- Preparing to Read the Old Testament, Book of Mormon Central
- Come, Follow Me Week 1, Part 1/6 (Dec 27 – Jan 2, Moses 1, Abraham 3), Book of Mormon Central
- Come, Follow Me Week 1, Part 2/6 (Dec 27 – Jan 2, Moses 1, Abraham 3), Book of Mormon Central
- Dec 27–Jan 2 (Moses 1; Abraham 3) Come Follow Me Insights with Taylor and Tyler, Book of Mormon Central
- Come, Follow Me Week 1, Part 3/6 (Dec 27 – Jan 2, Moses 1, Abraham 3), Book of Mormon Central
- Come, Follow Me Week 1, Part 4/6 (Dec 27 – Jan 2, Moses 1, Abraham 3), Book of Mormon Central
- Come, Follow Me Week 1, Part 5/6 (Dec 27 – Jan 2, Moses 1, Abraham 3), Book of Mormon Central
- Come, Follow Me Week 1, Part 6/6 (Dec 27 – Jan 2, Moses 1, Abraham 3), Book of Mormon Central
- Christ in the Old Testament, Book of Mormon Central
- Why Did Joseph Smith Produce a New Translation of the Bible?, Book of Mormon Central KnoWhy #628
- Come Follow Me Old Testament Moses 1; Abraham 3 (Dec 27-Jan 2) Don’t Miss This, Don’t Miss This
- Come Follow Me – Moses 1; Abraham 3: “My Work and My Glory”, Unshaken
- Come Follow Me Old Testament Podcast #1: “We Came from a Place of Great Light”, Moses 1, Abraham 3, Meridian Magazine
- December 27, 2021–January 2, 2022 Come, Follow Me Songs, Music for Latter-day Life
- Moses 1; Abraham 3 – “This Is My Work and My Glory”, BYU Studies
Additional Material on Book of Mormon Central
- Abrahamic Astronomy, Pearl of Great Price Central, October 15, 2019
- Ancient Near Eastern Creation Myths, Pearl of Great Price Central, November 18, 2019
- Creation from Chaos, Pearl of Great Price Central, November 12, 2019
- Kolob, The Governing One, Pearl of Great Price Central, October 29, 2019
- Shinehah, The Sun, Pearl of Great Price Central, October 23, 2019
- The Divine Council, Pearl of Great Price Central, November 6, 2019
- The Foreordination of Abraham, Pearl of Great Price Central, November 30, 2019
- How a Tangent About Foreordination Helps Explain Repentance, Book of Mormon Central KnoWhy #398, January 11, 2018
- How Do the Book of Moses and Book of Mormon Help Us Understand the Endowment?, Book of Mormon Central KnoWhy #396, January 4, 2018
BYU Religious Education Old Testament Roundtables
BYU Studies Recommended Reading
- “Where Is Thy Glory?” Moses 1, the Nature of Truth, and the Plan of Salvation, Dan Belnap, Religious Educator (2009)
- A Prologue to Genesis: Moses 1 in Light of Jewish Traditions, E. Douglas Clark, BYU Studies, Vol. 45, no. 1
- Changes in the Book of Moses and Their Implications upon a Concept of Revelation, James R. Harris, BYU Studies, Vol. 8, no. 4 (1968)
- Ex Nihilo: The Development of the Doctrines of God and Creation in Early Christianity, Keith E. Norman, BYU Studies, Vol. 17, no. 3
- How We Got the Book of Moses, Kent P. Jackson, Religious Educator (2002)
- Moses 1, Kent P. Jackson, The Book of Moses and the Joseph Smith Translation Manuscripts (2005)
- The Development of the Doctrine of Preexistence, Charles R. Harrell, BYU Studies, Vol. 28, no. 2
- The Latter-day Saint Reimaging of “the Breath of Life” (Genesis 2:7), Dana M. Pike, BYU Studies, Vol. 56, no. 2 ($1.29; free to subscribers)
- The War in Heaven and Satan’s Continuing Battle for Power, Kevin M. Bulloch, Religious Educator
- Usage of the Title Elohim in the Hebrew Bible and Early Latter-day Saint Literature, Ryan C. Davis, Paul Y. Hoskisson, Bountiful Harvest: Essays in Honor of S. Kent Brown
- Worlds without Number: The Astronomy of Enoch, Abraham, and Moses, R. Grant Athay, BYU Studies, Vol. 8, no. 3 (1968)
