GUIDE TO THE SCRIPTURES
Translated Beings

Persons who are changed so that they do not experience pain or death until their resurrection to immortality.

Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him, Gen. 5: 24 (Heb. 11: 5; D&C 107: 48-49). No man knoweth of Moses' sepulchre unto this day, Deut. 34: 5-6 (Alma 45: 19). Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven, 2 Kgs. 2: 11. If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? John 21: 22-23 (D&C 7: 1-3). You shall never taste of death, 3 Ne. 28: 7. That they might not taste of death there was a change wrought upon their bodies, 3 Ne. 28: 38 (4 Ne. 1: 14; Morm. 8: 10-11). John the Beloved will live until the Lord comes, D&C 7. I have taken the Zion of Enoch into mine own bosom, D&C 38: 4 (Moses 7: 21, 31, 69). Enoch and his brethren are a city reserved until a day of righteousness, D&C 45: 12. Elijah was taken to heaven without tasting death, D&C 110: 13. The Holy Ghost fell on many, and they were caught up into Zion, Moses 7: 27.