Mormon 8:5 Textual Variants

Here in his editing for the 1837 edition, Joseph Smith removed the subordinate conjunction that after how long. There are no other examples in the text of this specific usage (“how that S”, where S is a clause), but there are seven examples of “how that S” in the original text. In two cases, the how has been removed in later editing (see under 1 Nephi 10:2–3 for discussion). For examples of the archaic use of that after subordinate connectors (such as after and because), see under subordinate conjunctions in volume 3. Clearly, the that was intended here in Mormon 8:5; both 𝓟 and the 1830 edition have it. And 𝓞 undoubtedly did as well since both 𝓟 and the 1830 edition are firsthand copies of 𝓞 for this part of the text.