PGP Changes

As with the Doctrine and Covenants, LDS leaders have altered the revelations contained in the Pearl of Great Price.

Original 1851 Pearl of Great Price	Current, Altered Pearl of Great Price
PGP Moses, p. 16 — And the Lord said unto Cain, why are you angry? Why is your countenance fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not well, sin lies at the door, and Satan desires to have you; and except you shall hearken unto my commandments, I will deliver you up, and it shall be unto you according to his desire. [View Pearl of Great Price text off site]	PGP Moses 5:22-31 — And the Lord said unto Cain, why ~~are you angry~~ [art thou wroth]? Why is ~~your~~ [thy] countenance fallen? If ~~you do~~ [thou doest] well, ~~will you not be~~ [thou shall be] [thou shall be] accepted?. And if ~~you~~ [thou] do[est] not well, sin lie[th] at the door, and Satan desire[th] to have ~~you~~ [thee]; and except ~~you~~ [thou] shall hearken unto my commandments, I will deliver ~~you~~ [thee] up, and it shall be unto ~~you~~ [thee] according to his desire. [And thou shalt rule over him; For from this time forth thou shalt be the father of his lies; thou shalt be called Perdition; for thou wast also before the world. For from this time forth thou shalt be ...] Note: At this point there are an additional 200 words added to this passage including Cain making a pact directly with Satan to be able to kill his brother Abel.
PGP Moses, p. 14 — And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. And again, the Lord said unto the woman, I will greatly multiply your sorrow, and your conception. [View Pearl of Great Price text off site]	PGP Moses 4:19-22 — And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. And ~~again,~~ [I] the Lord [God] said unto the [serpent: Because thou has done this thou shalt be cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon they belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life; And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, between thy seed and her seed; and he shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Unto the] woman, [I the Lord God said],.I will greatly multiply [thy] ~~your~~ sorrow, and [thy] ~~your~~ conception.
PGP JS History, p. 41 — He called me by name and said unto me, that he was a messenger sent from the presence of God to me, and that his name was Nephi. [View Pearl of Great Price text off site]	PGP JS History, 1:33 — He called me by name and said unto me, that he was a messenger sent from the presence of God to me, and that his name was Moroni.
Note: All evidence indicates this change was made after the death of Joseph Smith, and cannot be considered a clerical error. Both the handwritten manuscripts for the History of the Church, and the printed history in the Church newspaper Times and Seasons (of which Joseph Smith was editor) give the visiting personage’s name as "Nephi."