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===== 🧾 Language (as recorded by early participants) =====

Participants in the oath swore something along the lines of:

: "...that you and each of you will pray and never cease to pray to Almighty God to avenge the blood of the prophets upon this nation..."
* “The prophets” meant Joseph and Hyrum Smith.
* “This nation” meant the United States — since LDS leaders believed the U.S. government had failed to protect the Smiths and was complicit by inaction.

This oath was part of the pre-1990 temple endowment, primarily in the 1800s and early 1900s (likely phased out fully by the 1920s–1930s, depending on location).