Mosiah 1:3 Textual Variants

The 1841 British edition accidentally dropped the word even from this passage. The subsequent 1849 LDS edition restored it. The word even is similarly used in the very next verse: “even down to this present time” (Mosiah 1:4). King Benjamin also uses the expression “even at this time” three times in his final discourse to the people (but without the word present):

• Mosiah 2:30 for even at this time my whole frame doth tremble exceedingly
• Mosiah 3:22 and even at this time when thou shalt have taught thy people …
• Mosiah 4:20 and behold even at this time ye have been calling on his name

Thus the use of even in Mosiah 1:3 is quite appropriate.