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The Golden Age, “(article not identified)”

4 February 1931p. 293Source ID src-g-1931-0204-vaccination-noah-covenantAccessed 19 September 2026
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The Golden Age, “(article not identified)”

4 February 1931 · p.293 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society (Golden Age Publishing)

The Golden Age of 4 February 1931 is widely reported to have described vaccination as a violation of the covenant God made with Noah. No copy of this issue has been opened, so the sentence is recorded here as reported rather than quoted, and the site does not reproduce it as the magazine’s words.

Provenance and verification note for The Golden Age, (article not identified)

Confidence note. NOT opened. The archive.org collection "1930-1934TheGoldenAgeMagazine" does not contain the 4 February 1931 issue. The wording in circulation appears on several campaigning and reference websites which may not be independent of one another, so it is not reproduced here as a quotation. A scan of the issue would settle it.

Corroborated by. src-w-1952-1215-qfr-vaccination

Notes. The 1952 Questions From Readers answer discusses the Noachian covenant argument explicitly, which is consistent with such an article having been published, but does not establish its wording.

Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-g-1931-0204-vaccination-noah-covenant