1 Nephi 13:15 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
like unto my people before [that 0A|that >js NULL 1| BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] they were slain

Here we have the first example of the subordinate conjunction that after the conjunction before. Such examples of archaic Early Modern English have been edited out of the text. In this particular instance, Joseph Smith marked the deletion in 𝓟. For a complete listing, see subordinate conjunctions in volume 3. See 1 Nephi 1:14 for because that and 1 Nephi 1:17 for after that.

Summary: Restore the archaic use of that after the subordinate conjunction before wherever it is supported by the earliest textual sources.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 1

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