Mosiah 19:6 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and Gideon pursued after him and was about to get upon the tower [to 1ABCDEFGHIJKMNOPQRST|and L] slay the king

Here the 1902 LDS missionary edition replaced the infinitival to with the conjunctive and. The critical text will maintain the original use of to here. For further discussion of this phraseology, see under Mosiah 19:21.

Summary: Maintain in Mosiah 19:6 the infinitival clause “to slay the king”, the earliest reading.

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

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