Mormon 3:4 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and it came to pass that after this tenth year had passed away making in the whole three hundred and sixty years from the coming of Christ [& 1| ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] the king of the Lamanites sent an epistle unto me

As explained under Helaman 16:10, in the latter part of the text the 1830 typesetter usually removed the Hebraistic and, as here in Mormon 3:4 where the and preceded the main clause “the king of the Lamanites sent an epistle unto me” and separated it from the preceding subordinate after-clause with its associated present participial clause. The critical text will restore this original instance of and.

Summary: Restore in Mormon 3:4 the Hebraistic and that originally occurred just before the main clause “the king of the Lamanites sent an epistle unto me”.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 6

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