The Book of Mormon

Helaman 3:30

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~49–39 BC

1830 Edition

and land their souls, yea, their immortal souls, at the right hand of God, in the kingdom of Heaven, to sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and with Jacob, and with all our holy fathers, to go no more out.

Influences

Romans 8:34 (KJV)
Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
Matthew 3:2 (KJV)
And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Matthew 8:11 (KJV)
And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.

Changes

aAnd land their souls, yea, their immortal souls, at the right hand of God, in the kingdom of Hheaven, to sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and with Jacob, and with all our holy fathers, to go no more out.

Simple English

It will bring their souls to God’s right hand in Heaven. They will sit with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. They will sit with all our holy fathers. They will never leave.

Paraphrase

God’s word brings our souls—our immortal souls—safely to his right hand in heaven, where we sit with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all our holy ancestors. And we’ll never leave.

Notes

3:30

"immortal soul(s)" is found in Mosiah 2:38 and Helaman 3:30. Smith used this same phrase in his 1832 account of his life as recorded in An American Prophet's Record, p. 4.

"Smith's writings contain many similar phrases as the Book of Mormon...A phrase not found in the Bible but used in the Book of Mormon is immortal soul." - Jerald and Sandra Tanner, Joseph Smith's Plagiarism of the Bible in the Book of Mormon, p. 41.

For addiontal examples of Smith's common phrases, see: 1 Nephi 19:2; 2 Nephi 28:22; 2 Nephi 26:15; and 2 Nephi 28:16.