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The “Racial Curse” in Abraham Isn’t What You Think | Don Bradley E0052

Abraham Isn, Don Bradley, Joseph Smith, Latter-day Saint, Racial Curse, What You Think, When Abraham

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1h 23m·February 19, 2026

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Which chapter of scripture includes a vision of God, an attempted human sacrifice, and a phrase many believe justified a racial priesthood ban?

And have we been reading it wrong?

When Abraham 1 describes Pharaoh as “cursed as pertaining to the priesthood,” what did that actually mean? Was it about race? Was it restriction? Or have later generations read their own assumptions back into the text?

Latter-day Saint historian, Don Bradley, explores how Abraham 1 reshapes our understanding of Abraham’s story, why he was nearly sacrificed, and what Joseph Smith may have understood about Pharao...

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