Mormon 3:8 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and in [the 1ABCDEFGHIJLMNOPQRST| K] three hundred and sixty and second year they did come down again to battle

Here the 1892 RLDS edition accidentally omitted the definite article the before the compound ordinal number and its accompanying noun year. The 1908 RLDS edition restored the obviously correct reading with the the. In Mormon 4:10, scribe 2 of 𝓟 made the same error initially in his copywork:

Summary: Maintain in Mormon 3:8 and in Mormon 4:10 the definite article the before the ordinal number; in each case the the is expected.

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

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