A look inside · On the Sixth Day

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Four sample pages from different parts of the book. Each kind of material has its own look, so you always know whether you are reading scripture, an ancient writing or the author's story. Tap a page to read it full size.

  • Scripture, in a scroll frame
  • Ancient writings, in a colored box with their source
  • The author's fictional narrative, in brown, labeled as fiction
  • Red text: the words of the Lord God
Page 15. An ancient writing, the Questions of Bartholomew, set apart with its source. Below it, the scripture itself: Moses 1:6–11.
Page 74. The narrative "A Better Covering" closes, labeled "A work of fiction." Then the author steps out of the story in a boxed note of his own: "The Author's Admonition and Challenge."
Page 86. The Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan, an ancient writing, beside "The First Night Outside," the author's narrative.
Page 186. Genesis 4:1–2 in its scroll frame, then "The First to Turn Away," the author's narrative of the years before Cain was born.

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The order of witnesses

How every book is built

  1. 1The standard works: the Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants and the Pearl of Great Price
  2. 2The words of latter-day prophets
  3. 3Latter-day Saint scholarship
  4. 4Ancient writers, from Josephus and the apocryphal books to the sages of the Mishnah

Doctrine, tradition, scholarship and story are kept in separate labeled boxes, so you always know which is which. No book introduces new doctrine.

In the text, the words of the Lord God are printed in red, and the author's fictional narrative in brown.

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