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November 20, 1835
Kirtland, Ohio. At home, Joseph Smith made rapid progress translating the Egyptian records, and he received a Hebrew Bible, Greek and Hebrew lexicons, and a Webster’s dictionary from Oliver Cowdery, who recently returned from New York.
Sources:
History of the Church 2:318
Jackson, BYU Studies 40.1

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