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The claim is often heard that there are more than 4000 changes to the Book of Mormon text. The majority of these are typographical. Few of the changes are significant. We examine the more noteworthy changes.
 
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The claim is often heard that there are more than 4000 changes to the Book of Mormon text. The majority of these are typographical. Few of the changes are significant. We examine the more noteworthy changes.

Reasons for textual changes made to the Book of Mormon over the years after it was first published


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"God" changed to "Son of God" in the Book of Mormon


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"White and delightsome" changed to "pure and delightsome"


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"Benjamin" was changed to "Mosiah" in later editions of the Book of Mormon


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Words missing in Alma 32:30


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Source(s) of the criticism
Critical sources

Complaints of spelling, stylistic, or grammatical faults

  • [Letter on Mormonism, 26 July 1841,] Christian Advocate and Journal (New York) 15, no. 52 (11 August 1841). off-site
  • “Complaints of a Mormonite,” Evangelical Magazine and Gospel Advocate (Utica, New York) ( 5 September 1835): 285. off-site
  • “Diabolical,” The Reflector (Palmyra, New York) new series, no. 8 (27 February 1830): 66-67. off-site
  • “Gold Bible, No. 5,” The Reflector (Palmyra, New York) 2, no. 14 (28 February 1831): 109. off-site
  • “The Mormons,” Religious Herald (Richmond, Virginia) (9 April 1840). off-site
  • S. Evangelical Magazine and Gospel Advocate (Utica, New York) new series 2, no. 6 (5 February 1831): 47. off-site
  • Origen Bachelor, Mormonism Exposed Internally and Externally (New York: Privately Published, 1838), 9, 11–12, 14–16. off-site
    The author has an entire section dedicated to "barbarisms" of the "gross violations of the propriety of language" and another on supposed "modernisms."
  • C. C. Blatchley, “Caution Against the Golden Bible,” New-York Telescope 6, no. 38 (20 February 1830): 150. off-site
  • Alexander Campbell, “Signs of the Times,” Millennial Harbinger 5, no. 4 (April 1834): 148, note. off-site
  • John A. Clark, “Gleanings by the Way. No. VII,” Episcopal Recorder (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) 18, no. 25 (12 September 1840), n.p.. off-site
  • Gimel, “Book of Mormon,” The Christian Watchman (Boston) 12, no. 40 (7 October 1831). off-site
  • Josiah Priest, American Antiquities (Albany: Hoffman and White, 1833), ??. off-site
  • G.C. Stewart, “The Book of Mormon,” The Perfectionist (Putney, Vermont) 3, no. 7 (15 May 1843): 28. off-site
  • La Roy Sunderland, “Mormonism,” Zion’s Watchman (New York) 3, no. 9 (3 March 1838): n.p.. off-site
  • La Roy Sunderland, “Mormonism,” Zion’s Watchman (New York) 3, no. 7 (17 February 1838). off-site
  • Western Traveller, “Mormonism,” Christian Advocate and Journal (New York) 7, no. 30 (22 March 1833): 1. off-site
  • S. Williams, Mormonism Exposed (1838), 6. off-site
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