Section 37, Place: (Canadaigua, Ontario County, New York, as per Book of Commandments).
Historical Note: Section 37 is the first revelation which addressed the need of the Church membership to move to Ohio. The revelation also instructed Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon to stop the work of translating the Bible until they moved to "the Ohio."
[Source: Cook, Lyndon, Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith: A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants, http://amzn.to/RevelationsofJosephSmith]
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