Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Manchester, New York, April 1830 (see History of the Church, 1:79–80). This revelation was given to the Church in consequence of some who had previously been baptized desiring to unite with the Church without rebaptism.

¹⁾BEHOLD, I say unto you that all old covenants have I caused to be done away in this thing; and this is a new and an everlasting covenant, even that which was from the beginning.

²⁾Wherefore, although a man should be baptized an hundred times it availeth him nothing, for you cannot enter in at the strait gate by the law of Moses, neither by your dead works.

³⁾For it is because of your dead works that I have caused this last covenant and this church to be built up unto me, even as in days of old.

⁴⁾Wherefore, enter ye in at the gate, as I have commanded, and seek not to counsel your God. Amen.