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008 Translating the Book of Mormon with Stones in a Hat?

Church History Matters

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The Importance of a Tight Translation

Some of these changes didn't make it into our scriptures until the 1981 edition. He was just reading what he was seeing in English, but he did have some license as a prophet to go and do some loose editing to the tight translation. Maybe we could say that's an argument for a very tight translation or dictation and then loose editing later. Yeah.

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