Mosiah 1:2 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and that they might know concerning the prophecies which had been spoken by the mouths of their fathers which was delivered them by the hand of the Lord

One wonders here if there might be a preposition missing before the indirect object them, perhaps unto or to. Elsewhere in the text there are seven examples of the verb deliver where an immediately following pronominal indirect object takes either the preposition unto or to:

Yet there is one other example in the text where the verb deliver takes an immediately following pronominal indirect object without any preposition:

This usage is quite common in the King James Bible:

The critical text will therefore retain the two cases where the pronominal indirect object takes no preposition, here in Mosiah 1:2 as well as in 2 Nephi 27:24.

Summary: Retain the two readings where no preposition precedes a pronominal indirect object after the verb deliver: “the words that shall be delivered him” in 2 Nephi 27:24 and “which was delivered them by the hand of the Lord” in Mosiah 1:2; such usage without a preposition is fairly common in the King James Bible.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 2

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