Mormon 6:12 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and we also beheld [the 1ABCEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST| D] ten thousand of my people which were led by my son Moroni

The 1841 British edition omitted the expected the here in Mormon 6:12. Clearly, the text requires the the since Mormon referred earlier in verse 10 to his own ten thousand. Also note the use of the the in the following verse: “and behold the ten thousand of Gidgiddonah had fallen” (Mormon 6:13). The 1849 LDS edition restored the the here in Mormon 6:12.

Summary: Maintain in Mormon 6:12 the definite article the in “we also beheld the ten thousand of my people”, the earliest (and obviously correct) reading.

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

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