Helaman 4:16 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
for when Moronihah saw that they did repent he did venture to lead them forth from place to place and from city to city even until they had [retained 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNPS|regained OQRT] the one half of their property and the one half of all their lands

As explained under Alma 58:3, the critical text will restore the original uses of the verb retain with the meaning ‘take back’. For two nearby instances of the same restoration, see under Helaman 4:9–10.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 5

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