Mosiah 23:35 Textual Variants

and Amulon and his brethren did join [them >% the 1|the ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] Lamanites and they were traveling in the wilderness in search of the land of Nephi

Oliver Cowdery initially wrote them instead of the Lamanites here in 𝓟. His correction was immediate since he corrected the them by erasing the m and then writing inline Lamanites. Undoubtedly the original manuscript (and the original text) read “Amulon and his brethren did join the Lamanites”. Oliver made a similar error in 𝓟 for a nearby passage:

Mosiah 21:3
- and began to put heavy burdens upon [them > their 1|their ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] backs See that passage for further discussion.

Summary: Retain in Mosiah 23:35 Oliver Cowdery’s immediate correction in 𝓟: “Amulon and his brethren did join the Lamanites”.

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

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