BOOK OF MORMON
2 Nephi - Chapter 16 Critique
Note:
Sidney Rigdon copied the old King James Version including words not
found in the original Hebrew. Words that were added, omitted, or
changed are highlighted within the verse. Accordingly, Sidney Rigdon
was no language expert and the Book of Mormon is not Holy Scripture.
Setting: Nephi supposedly began his second record in the Americas during 588 BCE about the time of the destruction of Jerusalem and continued to 545 BCE. This would have covered the time of the prophets Ezekiel and Daniel who were prophesying in Babylon during the captivity.
Verse 1: IN the year that king Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
Note: Sidney Rigdon copied the old King James Version of the Holy Bible.
Isaiah 6:1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
Verse 2: Above it stood the seraphim; each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
Note: Sidney Rigdon copied the old King James Version of the Holy Bible.
Isaiah 6:2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
Verse 3: And one cried unto another, and said: Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of Hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory.
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Isaiah 6:3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
Verse 4: And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
Note: Sidney Rigdon copied the old King James Version of the Holy Bible.
Isaiah 6:4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
Verse 5: Then said I: Wo is unto me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips; and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Hosts.
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Isaiah 6:5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
Verse 6: Then flew one of the seraphim unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar;
Note: Sidney Rigdon copied the old King James Version of the Holy Bible.
Isaiah 6:6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
Verse 7: And he laid it upon my mouth, and said: Lo, this has touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
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Isaiah 6:7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
Verse 8: Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said: Here am I; send me.
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Isaiah 6:8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us? Then I said, Here am I! Send me.
Verse 9: And he said: Go and tell this people--Hear ye indeed, but they understood not; and see ye indeed, but they perceived not.
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Isaiah 6:9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
Verse 10: Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes--lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted and be healed.
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Isaiah 6:10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
Verse 11: Then said I: Lord, how long? And he said: Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate;
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Isaiah 6:11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
Verse 12: And the Lord have removed men far away, for there shall be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
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Isaiah 6:12 And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
Verse 13: But yet there shall be a tenth, and they shall return, and shall be eaten, as a teil-tree, and as an oak whose substance is in them when they cast their leaves; so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
Note: Sidney Rigdon copied the old King James Version of the Holy Bible.
Isaiah 6:13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.