Before dawn on October 24, 1841, Orson Hyde scaled the Mount of Olives outside Jerusalem. There, as the sun rose, he wrote and recited a prayer, which said in part,
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The Complicated Relationship between Mormons and Jews
Latter-day Saints patterned themselves after biblical Israel, and used its traumas to explain their own.
The sun over a Latter-day Saints compound in Texas. Mike Terry/Deseret Morning News/Getty Images.
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