“Give Thee My Servant for a Covenant of the People”

D. Kelly Ogden, Andrew C. Skinner

“ … have I heard thee, O isles of the sea”—isles, again, are the far islands or continents beyond Asia.

“ … and give thee my servant for a covenant of the people”—that is, Joseph Smith.

Verse by Verse: The Book of Mormon: Vol. 1

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