Editing Doctrine and Covenants (section)

===1876 Edition===

In 1876, a new LDS Church edition renumbered most of the sections in a roughly chronological order instead of the earlier topical order, and included 26 sections not included in previous editions, now numbered as sections 2, 13, 77, 85, 87, 108–111, 113–118, 120–123, 125, 126, 129–132, and 136. Previous editions had been divided into verses with the early versifications generally following the paragraph structure of the original text. It was with the 1876 edition that the currently used versification was first employed.

In 1876, section 101 from the 1835 edition (and subsequent printings) was removed. Section 101 was a "Statement on Marriage" as adopted by an 1835 conference of the church,<ref>''[[History of the Church (Joseph Smith)|History of the Church]]'' '''2''':247.</ref><ref>''[[Messenger and Advocate]]'', August 1835, p. 163</ref> and contained the following text: 
{{Blockquote|Inasmuch as this Church of Christ has been reproached with the crime of fornication and polygamy, we declare that we believe that one man should have one wife, and one woman but one husband, except in the case of death, when either is at liberty to marry again.<ref>[http://josephsmithpapers.org/paperSummary/doctrine-and-covenants-1835#259 Doctrine and Covenants (1835 edition) 101:4].</ref> }} 
This section was removed because it had been superseded by section 132 of the modern LDS edition, recorded in 1843, which contains a revelation received by Joseph Smith on [[eternal marriage]] and [[plural marriage]], the origin of the principles of which the LDS Church traces to as early as 1831.

During the 1880s, five foreign editions contained two revelations to [[John Taylor (Mormon)|John Taylor]] that were received in 1882 and 1883; these revelations "set in order" the priesthood, gave more clarification about the roles of priesthood offices—especially the [[Seventy (LDS Church)|seventy]]—and required "men who ... preside over my [[Priesthood (Latter Day Saints)|priesthood]]" to live [[plural marriage]] in order to qualify to hold their church positions.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Holzapfel|first1=Richard|last2=Jones|first2=Christopher|title="John the Revelator": The Written Revelations of John Taylor|url=http://rsc.byu.edu/archived/champion-liberty-john-taylor/john-revelator-written-revelations-john-taylor#_ednref99|website=BYU Religious Studies Center|access-date=2014-12-16}}</ref> Due to the LDS Church's change in attitude to polygamy in 1890, these sections were not included in future English editions of the Doctrine and Covenants.<ref>{{cite web|date=|author=Mary Jane Woodger|url=https://rsc.byu.edu/champion-liberty-john-taylor/john-revelator-written-revelations-john-taylor#_edn1|title="John the Revelator": The Written Revelations of John Taylor|publisher=[[Religious Studies Center]]|accessdate=May 25, 2021|archivedate=April 26, 2020|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200426184831/https://rsc.byu.edu/champion-liberty-john-taylor/john-revelator-written-revelations-john-taylor|url-status=live}}</ref>