Although Moroni is the last book of the Book of Mormon, there are other books in the Mormon scriptures. These include The Bible, The Pearl of Great Price, The Doctrine and Covenants. The Book of Abraham is the second book in the Pearl of Great Price.

The Book of Abraham

Episode 73: The race that God cursed

Abraham 1-2

Abraham's hieroglyphics

1 ¹ I, Abraham, saw that I needed to move to another place of residence. ² I wanted to become a prince of peace and father of many nations. So I became a high priest. ³ I received the priesthood from the beginning of time, before the foundation of the earth. ⁴ It was all done according to the fathers concerning the seed.

⁵ My fathers stopped obeying the commandments and began worshiping heathen gods and wouldn't listen to me. ⁷ They sacrificed their children to dumb idols. When I told them not to, they tried to kill me.

⁸ It was the custom of the Pharaoh to sacrifice men, women, and children to strange gods in the land of Chaldea. ¹⁰ Pharaoh's priest offered three virgins on Potiphar's hill. ¹¹ The virgins were the daughters of Ohitah, who was descended from the loins of Ham, and they were being killed for refusing to worship gods of wood or stone. ¹² The priests wanted to kill me with the virgins. ¹⁴ (So you'll get an idea about all this, I've provided the attached hieroglyphic.) ¹⁵ Just when they were about to kill me, I cried out to God, and an angel released me. ¹⁶ The angel said, “Abraham, I'm Jehovah and I've come down to save you and take you away from your father's house and bring you to a strange land. ¹⁸ I'll lead you by the hand and put my name and the priesthood of my father on you.” ²⁰ Then God broke the altar of the Chaldean gods and killed the priest.

Ham and Egyptus preserved the race that God cursed

²¹ The king of Egypt was a Canaanite, who was directly descended from the loins of Ham. ²² All of the Egyptians descended from him, preserving the blood of the Canaanites. ²³ Egypt was discovered by a woman who was the daughter of Ham and Egyptus (which is Egypt in the Chaldean language, signifying that which is forbidden). ²⁴ When this woman discovered Egypt it was under water. Later her sons settled there. So in this way the curse of Ham was preserved in that race.

²⁵ The first government of Egypt was established by Pharaoh, the oldest son of Egyptus, the daughter of Ham. ²⁸ Pharaoh ruled wisely and was blessed by his father Noah with the blessings of the earth but cursed him when it came to the priesthood. ²⁷ So Pharaoh was of that lineage who couldn't become priests. And my father was led astray by their idolatry. ²⁸ But I'll try to provide you with a history that extends back to the beginning of creation, because I have all the records for that.

²⁸ There was a famine Chaldea. ³⁰ And my father regretted trying to kill me. ³¹ But I had the records of the creation of the planets and stars. And I still have them. I'll try to write down some of that for you.

Abraham, Sarah, and Lot move to Canaan

2 ¹ God made the famine so bad that it killed my brother, Haran. But my father survived.

² I, Abraham, married Sarai. ³ The Lord said to me, "Leave this country and travel to a land that I'll show you." ⁴ So I left Chaldea and went to Canann with my father, my nephew Lot and his wife.

⁵ As we traveled, we stopped in Haran. And my father returned to his idolatry. So he stayed there. ¹⁴ I was 62 years old when I left Haran. ¹⁵ I took Sarai, Lot, and all of our possessions to the land of Canaan. ¹⁹ The Lord appeared to me and said, "I'll give this land to your seed."

²¹ Since there was a famine in Canaan, I went to Egypt for a while. ²² As we were traveling, the Lord said to me,

Your wife Sarai is very attractive. ²³ When the Egyptians see her, they'll say, "She's his wife," and they'll kill you but keep her alive. ²⁴ So tell her to tell the Egyptians that she's your sister. That way you'll stay alive.

²⁵ So I told Sarai what God told me.