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In the early 1970s, the General Authorities called qualified people to review the scriptures and find ways to help people understand them better. A letter addressed to those selected to help in this work was written by Elder Spencer W. Kimball, then Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve. In that letter was the assignment “to prepare a King James Bible which would include a standardized concordance, dictionary, atlas, and index and … have footnotes, ready references, and cross-references related to other LDS scriptures. … Its purpose is to assist in improving doctrinal scholarship throughout the Church” from Primary children to adults.

It was expected that the work on the Bible would take a year or two. Instead it took nearly seven years and was completed in 1979. It took another two years to complete similar work on the other scriptures of the Church.

Here is a crossword puzzle to help you understand and use the LDS edition of the King James Bible. The answers are found in either Exodus, chapter 11, [Ex. 11] or in the footnotes. To use footnotes, read a scripture until you see a small letter in a raised position right before a word. Now look at the bottom of the column, below the line. Find the chapter number there in bold print, then the verse number in lighter print, and finally the letter that was before the word. The footnote will give you information such as a substitute word, a change made by Joseph Smith, or a reference to either the Topical Guide or another scripture.

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Crossword puzzle