Mosiah 21:23 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and the king having been without the gates of the city with his guard [he 1A| BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] discovered Ammon and his brethren

Here the 1837 edition removed the redundant he. As already discussed under Mosiah 8:7, in the original Book of Mormon text the subject is frequently repeated as a pronoun when there is an intervening participial clause. Some of these redundancies have been removed, as here in Mosiah 21:23, but others have been left unchanged. For further discussion and a complete list of examples, see subject repetition in volume 3.

Summary: Restore the repeated subject he in Mosiah 21:23; such usage was fairly common in the original text and is still found to some degree in the current text.

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

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