Plato being accused of corrupting the minds of the Youth in 2026? Socrates would be so proud.

Here's their website! They even sell an 'Adult's Edition' with the same text, but for people who don't want to be seen carrying around what looks like a kid's Bible 😅
www.godsstoriesbook.com

The book is designed for as young as 5-11. Mine are 12 and 16. At this age, not using as a replacement for reading the stories (older is enrolled in LDS Seminary), but as great frames for introducing them in new perspectives. I as an adult love how they frame the stories.

This book starts with the Babylonian Exile as its first story, and only THEN goes into the Second (Genesis 2) Creation account and the exile from Eden presented through the eyes of someone in exile re-telling it, before going into the poetic Genesis 1 version. I LOVE this framing so much.

The Church links to the YouBible app, a free download, which has many, many translations for free to read and compare.

In given visions "as" these prophetic figures, he essentially took upon himself their work and missions (Moses, Enoch, Abraham).

It goes more meta in the Enoch passages w/ Joseph using Enoch as his own codename, and even re-writing modern texts into Enoch-era passages, with Joseph re-cast as Enoch. (see: "The Inspired Fictionalization of the 1835 United Firm Revelations", by Chris Smith)
mormonstudies.cgu.edu/students/stu...

Plus, it's in this direct timeline context when Joseph said Rigdon is to be as the Spokesman/Aaron figure to Joseph's revelator.

It's what I get from reading Moses 1, and wondering how it's any different than something like D&C 76, except the perspective is changed. What would be the essential /experiential/ difference between a personal vision, and being shown a revelation of a vision given to someone else?

I understand WHY Moses (and Abraham) is jammed into the OT year, but I'd love to see it nestled in contextually with the D&C, where it fits perfectly, and adds to the contexts of many of the revelations in the D&C.

This is my family rn

UPDATE: Latter-day Saint Christmas Season is officially over, Church social media informs us.

I found that as I was looking for the listing for something I DID know was coming, the 6th Edition of the Oxford Annotated Bible w/ Apocrypha. Amazon lists that one as being available in June 2026 amzn.to/4b7yiMT