Mosiah 2:11 Textual Variants

In this passage the earliest text has an initial subordinate conjunction (as) that is never completed by a main clause. The committee for the 1920 LDS edition removed the as, thus making the subordinate clause into an independent one. Yet interestingly, the following text (verses 12–14) has an incomplete as-clause that has never been edited:

• Mosiah 2:12–14
  • I say unto you that as I have been suffered to spend my days in your service even up to this time and have not sought gold nor silver nor no manner of riches of you neither have I suffered that ye should be confined in dungeons nor that ye should make slaves one of another or that ye should murder or plunder or steal or commit adultery or even I have not suffered that ye should commit any manner of wickedness and have taught you that ye should keep the commandments of the Lord in all things which he hath commanded you and even I myself have labored with mine own hands that I might serve you and that ye should not be laden with taxes and that there should nothing come upon you which was grievious to be borne and of all these things which I have spoken ye yourselves are witnesses this day

As noted in the discussion under 1 Nephi 8:7, there has been a strong tendency to editorially delete the subordinate conjunction as in order to remove incomplete sentences from the text. The critical text will restore virtually all such instances, providing they are supported by the earliest textual sources. Also see the discussion regarding this usage in Enos 1:26–27.