Mosiah 25:10 Textual Variants

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they did raise their voices and [gave >js give 1|gave A|give BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] thanks to God

As discussed under Mosiah 21:8, the original text had quite a few examples where a simple pasttense verb form was conjoined to a preceding predicate containing the past-tense auxiliary verb form did. In this particular instance, Joseph Smith emended the gave to give in his editing for the 1837 edition. The critical text will, of course, restore the original gave. For additional discussion, see under 1 Nephi 8:11.

Summary: Restore the original simple past-tense form gave in Mosiah 25:10.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 3

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