The Book of Mormon Copies the King James Bible

Centuries before the King James translation of the Bible was printed, and even before the English language was fully formed, ancient records which claimed to have been written in a “Reformed Egyptian” language and giving an account of the people who supposedly lived on the American contingent from B.C. 600 to A.D. 421, were said to have been sealed up and hidden in the ground and then, fourteen hundred years later, in 1829, delivered by a heavenly messenger and translated into modern-day speech and called the Book of Mormon. Yet, we find this to be incongruous and absurd when we discover that at least twenty-seven thousand words form the King James translation of the Bible are contained in the Book of Mormon.

Entire chapters, and hundreds of verses, from the King James Authorized translation was first printed in 1611, and copied verbatim in the Book of Mormon. These copied passages even include the italicized words which were supplied by the translators! Then too, the English idioms of the translations and the idioms of the Greek of the New Testament as they appear in the King James translation of the Bible, are found in the Book of Mormon.*

* (Note: For examples compare Isaiah, chapter 53 in the King James translation of the Bible with Mosiah, chapter 14, in the Book of Mormon. This reveals that the King James translation has been copied almost word for word. Also compare Matthew, chapter 6, verses 1 through 23, with the Photo-reproduction No. 11 of page 483 of the 1830 Edition of the Book of Mormon. Here the King James translation has been copied even using the word “which” for “who” which was perfectly proper at the time of the King James translation but not so in 1830 when the Book of Mormon was written. On this page 482 of the Original Edition the words “Father which” occurs seven times, but in later editions of the Book of Mormon, the “which” has been changed to “who” (See 3 Nephi 13:1-18).