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Taking the above mentioned considerations into account, for the general membership, there was no urgency for already legally married couples to make a new or modified marriage covenant that added blessings (rather than nullified the prior vows) until the Nauvoo temple was completed after Joseph's death. Even among the legally married couples in the select group that Joseph Smith taught the concept of eternal marriage to, there was no urgency to formalize that promise with a new marriage rite until much later.
A full appreciation of what being married for time and eternity really meant awaited three other milestones for which Emma was honored as not only to be first of Joseph's wives to experience, but the first woman of this dispensation to experience. [1]
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