Last night, on a lark, I took down my copy of the "Revised Authorized Version" of The Book of Mormon and did a little reading.

The Revised Authorized Version is published by The Community of Christ. In the past, when things were more tense, we called them "The Reorganites" and they called us "The Utah Church." But sentiments have softened.

In short, for the Revised Authorized Version, scholars with The Community of Christ rubbed a little sandpaper on the Book of Mormon to take out some of the rough spots. The updated grammar and spellings replaced antiquated words and smoothed out a sentence here and there.

Elder Neal A. Maxwell once told me he didn't think the LDS Church would ever produce its own revised version.

"We keep finding little connections between words in the text and discovering language parallels," he said. "If we revised the language, much of that could be lost."

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