By Prof. Royal Skousen, Joseph Smith
First released in 1830, the booklet of Mormon is the authoritative scripture of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its expected thirteen million individuals. over the last twenty-one years, editor Royal Skousen has pored over Joseph Smith's unique manuscripts and pointed out greater than 2,000 textual error within the 1830 variation. even though almost all these discrepancies stem from inadvertent error in copying and typesetting the textual content, the Yale version includes approximately six hundred corrections that experience by no means seemed in any commonplace variation of the publication of Mormon, and approximately 250 of them have an effect on the text's which means. Skousen's corrected textual content is a piece of exceptional commitment and may be a landmark in American non secular scholarship.
thoroughly redesigned and typeset by means of nationally award-winning typographer Jonathan Saltzman, this re-creation has been reformatted in sense-lines, making the textual content even more logical and gratifying to learn. that includes a lucid advent by means of historian supply Hardy, the Yale variation serves not just because the so much exact model of the e-book of Mormon ever released but additionally as an illuminating entryway right into a very important spiritual tradition.
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3 | 1 And it came to pass that I Nephi returned from speaking with the Lord to the tent of my father. 2 And it came to pass that he spake unto me, saying: Behold, I have dreamed a dream in the which the Lord hath commanded me that thou and thy brethren shall return to Jerusalem. 3 For behold, Laban hath the record of the Jews and also a genealogy of my forefathers, and they are engraven upon plates of brass. 4 Wherefore the Lord hath commanded me that thou and thy brothers should go unto the house of Laban and seek the records and bring them down hither into the wilderness.
In nearly all cases, I have adopted the preferred American spelling as listed in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 11th edition (2003). There is no need to impose upon the reader the idiosyncratic nonstandard spellings found in the earliest textual sources. Thus I have ignored such manuscript oddities as fateagued, tortereth, jenealeja, and sofiseth (for fatigued, tortureth, genealogy, and su¤ceth), though interested readers can find all of these in the typographical facsimiles of the two Book of Mormon manuscripts, © and ® (namely, in volumes 1 and 2 of the Critical Text Project).
Apparently as part of the revelatory process, Joseph would from time to time perceive breaks within the text. At those points in his dictation he would tell the scribe to put the word chapter into the manuscript but without any numerical specification (the chapter numbers were added later, sometimes months later). The RLDS church (now known as the Community of Christ) has maintained these original chapters in their editions and has added versification. The LDS system, in comparison, has divided the original longer chapters into shorter ones so that no chapter ever reaches a hundred verses.
