Mosiah 10:15 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
when they had [ariven 1|arriven ABDEFIJLMNQ|arrived CGHKOPRST] [to 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQS|in RT] the promised land

The editors for the 1920 LDS edition changed the preposition here from to to in. The critical text will follow the original preposition to. The same change was made in 1 Nephi 17:14; see that passage for a complete discussion of this change. Here in Mosiah 10:15, the original past participial form arriven was first emended to the standard arrived in the 1840 edition. For additional discussion regarding arriven, see under 1 Nephi 17:14 as well as under past participle in volume 3.

Summary: In accord with the earliest text, restore in Mosiah 10:15 the preposition to and the past participial form arriven (“they had arriven to the promised land”).

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 2

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