Mosiah 2:35 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and behold also they [spoke > spake 1|spake ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] that which was commanded them of the Lord

Oliver Cowdery initially wrote spoke here in Mosiah 2:35, the expected past-tense form for speak in modern English, but he immediately corrected it to the archaic spake (the level of ink flow is unchanged). As discussed under 1 Nephi 12:19, there were apparently no examples of spoke, only spake, in the original text of the Book of Mormon.

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

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