Mosiah 29:28 Textual Variants

and now if ye have judges [& 1|and ABCDEFGIJLMNOPQRST|that HK] they do not judge you according to the law which has been given ye can cause that he may be judged of a higher judge

Here the 1874 RLDS edition accidentally replaced the coordinating conjunction and with the subordinating that. The 1908 RLDS edition restored the original and to the RLDS text. There is nothing inappropriate, of course, with having full clauses conjoined within a single if-clause, as in the following example also dealing with the Nephite judicial system:

Alma 11:2
- now if a man oweth another and he would not pay that which he did owe he was complained of to the judge

Summary: Accept the original reading in Mosiah 29:28 with its if-clause that allows the conjoining of two full clauses (“if ye have judges and they do not judge you according to the law …”).

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

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