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English
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The Restoration of the New and Everlasting Covenant of Marriage
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Joseph Smith and the Doctrinal Restoration : The 34th Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium
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Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center, BYU and Deseret Book,
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237-252
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"When God placed Adam and Eve upon the earth, He established a system of family government patterned after celestial government--the patriarchal order, or, as it is called in the Doctrine and Covenants, 'the new and everlasting covenant of marriage' (D&C 131:2). We lived under this priesthood order in our premortal existence. This type of government is a perfect system of organization; however, as apostasy occurred on the earth, men neglected and counterfeited the patriarchal order of God. When Joseph Smith restored the gospel to the earth, he reestablished the patriarchal order and a correct understanding of what God intended the new and everlasting covenant of marriage to be." [From author's introduction]