Peter1000
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I haven't studied this subject for a while. but as I remember, it was JS himself that changed some of the text because he felt it was confusing. And so the translator himself made some changes to the text. I do not think, and I could be wrong that the LDS completely altered any chapter from the original. It seems to me that only JS made changes.When the printers manuscript was sent to the publisher for printing, it did not contain punctuation and it was left to the editor or typesetter to include whatever punctuation they thought was appropriate. Most of the changes result from fixing those punctuation errors. The rest are textual changes that do drastically alter the meaning of some of the more significant passages of the book (as was mentioned in another thread there were several changes to verses in Nephi that alluded to a more modalistic view of God and they were changed to correspond to a more Trinitarian view). And the LDS then completely altered the chapter/verse set-up from the original, which created some mild confusion (don't know that any of it was textual.)
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