“Whosoever Will Not Repent, Them Will I Cut Off”

Brant Gardner

The additional text at the beginning of verse 14 (Micah 5:10) links this insertion with the rest of the discourse. The other major change includes what are now two verses between Micah 5:14 and 15, detailing the destruction of the wicked. 3 Nephi 21:20 reiterates the penalty of being excluded from the covenant with the house of Israel, a topic that has been a strong theme of this discourse.

Text: This is the end of a chapter in the 1830 edition, even though Jesus’s discourse clearly continues. For that reason, Orson Pratt in the 1879 edition, included the next verse in this chapter. Mormon typically breaks chapters at the end of extended quotations, which may explain the original chapter break on the plates which was carried over to the 1830 edition.

Second Witness: Analytical & Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon, Vol. 5

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