The Book of Mormon

Mosiah 29:25

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~92 BC

1830 Edition

therefore choose you by the voice of this people, judges, that ye may be judged according to the laws which hath been given you by our fathers, which are correct, and which was given them by the hand of the Lord.

Influences

1 Peter 4:6 (KJV)
For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

Changes

tTherefore, choose you by the voice of this people, judges, that ye may be judged according to the laws which hathve been given you by our fathers, which are correct, and which wasere given them by the hand of the Lord.

Simple English

So choose judges by the voice of the people. Then you can be judged by the laws our fathers gave you. These laws are right. The Lord gave them to our fathers.

Paraphrase

So instead, let the people choose judges. Let them make decisions based on the laws our fathers gave us—good laws that came from God himself.