Mosiah 29:36 Textual Variants

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telling them that these things ought not to be that they was expressly repugnant to the [command > commandments 1|commandments ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] of God

Here scribe 2 of 𝓟 originally wrote command followed by a space and the o of the following of. Then he immediately overwrote the space and the o with an m and continued inline with ents. There has been some tendency in the manuscripts for the scribes to accidentally replace commandment(s) with command(s). For a list of examples, see under Alma 30:7. Jacob is the only writer in the Book of Mormon (based on the original text) that refers to “the commands of God”. Otherwise, we get “the commandment(s) of God” or “the commandment(s) of the Lord”. See the discussion under Jacob 2:10 regarding Jacob’s use of commands.

Summary: Maintain in Mosiah 29:36 “the commandments of God”, the immediately corrected reading in 𝓟.

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

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