JS describes Gen. 1:1 as referring to "gods."

Date
Apr 7, 1844
Type
Personal Journal / Diary
Source
Joseph Smith, Jr.
LDS
Hearsay
Scribed Verbatim
Reference

Wilford Woodruff, Journal, April 7, 1844, The Joseph Smith Papers website, accessed August 11, 2021

Scribe/Publisher
Wilford Woodruff
People
Wilford Woodruff, Joseph Smith, Jr.
Audience
Latter-day Saints
Transcription

Barasheet in the beginning, Analize the word in and through the head, an old Jew added the word Bath, it red the head one of the gods, broat forth the gods, I will transpose it in the english language. I want you to know & learn that the Holy Ghost knows somthing.

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