Mosiah 18:7 Textual Variants

and it came to pass after many days there were a goodly number gathered together [to 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQS|at RT] the place of Mormon

Here the 1920 LDS edition changed the preposition to to at. The resulting reading is what modern English readers expect. Nonetheless, other examples of this same usage with to occur in the original text, many of which have never been edited. Consider, for instance, the following three cases where the verb phrase “to gather together” retains the preposition to:

Mosiah 7:17
- that thereby they might gather themselves together to the temple
Alma 17:32
- and they rushed forth with much swiftness and did head the ﬂocks of the king and did gather them together again to the place of water
Mormon 3:5
- that they should gather themselves together at the land Desolation to a city which was in the borders by the narrow pass which led into the land southward

For other examples of where the preposition to has been edited to at, see the discussion under 1 Nephi 17:14.

Summary: Restore the original preposition to in Mosiah 18:7 (“there were a goodly number gathered together to the place of Mormon”); similar examples have been retained in the text.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 3

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