Helaman 14:20 Textual Variants

Here the 1841 British edition omitted the relative pronoun that. It was restored in the subsequent LDS edition (1849). Either reading is, of course, theoretically possible. And in fact, the Book of Mormon has a contrastive pair where one instance has the relative pronoun that and the other does not:

• Mosiah 2:34 even down to the time our father Lehi left Jerusalem
• Alma 18:36 even down to the time that their father Lehi left Jerusalem

For each case of “ the time”, the critical text will follow the earliest textual sources with respect to any following relative pronoun (or lack of one). Thus here in Helaman 14:20 the relative pronoun that will be maintained.