Mosiah 29:13 Textual Variants

Initially in the printer’s manuscript, Hyrum Smith wrote “ye could have just men to be your judges”, which he immediately corrected by crossing out judges and writing inline the correct kings. Here Hyrum seems to have been influenced by the preceding use of judges in verse 11, especially the phrase “wise men to be judges”:

• Mosiah 29:11
  • nevertheless let us appoint judges to judge this people according to our law and we will newly arrange the affairs of this people for we will appoint wise men to be judges

In this chapter, king Mosiah is arguing for replacing kings with judges, so clearly kings is correct.