Here are your references given by people who speak the same language that was spoken by educated people even in Smith era..Now Jim, I challenge your claim that "hillbilly syntax... would make God out to be an illiterate I D I O T."
The reason I am challenging your claim, is that your claim amounts to an attack on the Bible and, indirectly on God Himself. And I won't allow that on this site without taking exception to such an attack.
Open your Bible, preferably the KJV, and read Ezekiel:
"...Son of man, eat that thou findest; eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel.
So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.
And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat,...
As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead..."
And the cherubims were lifted up.""
Only a hillbilly I DIOT would say "cause they BELLY to eat" ?
Or "an adamant harder than flint" ?
Or say cherubims when the plural of cherub is really cherubim?
Or in Exodus 34:
"...and they go a whoring after their gods"
Sounds pretty hillbillylike.
Yet you claim that such "hillbilly syntax... would make God out to be an illiterate I D I O T."
So you are saying that the HOLY BIBLE makes God out to be an illiterate I D I O T?
I disagree with your opinion.
Ezekiel 3:1-9 NASB
Then He said to me, “Son of man, eat what you find; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.” So I opened my mouth, and He fed me this scroll. He said to me, “Son of man, feed your stomach and fill your body with this scroll which I am giving you.” Then I ate it, and it was sweet as honey in my mouth. Then He said to me, “Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak with My words to them. For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel, nor to many peoples of unintelligible speech or difficult language, whose words you cannot understand. But I have sent you to them who should listen to you; yet the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, since they are not willing to listen to Me. Surely the whole house of Israel is stubborn and obstinate. Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces and your forehead as hard as their foreheads. Like emery harder than flint I have made your forehead. Do not be afraid of them or be dismayed before them, though they are a rebellious house.”
Exodus 34:15
otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and they would play the harlot with their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone might invite you to eat of his sacrifice
Just where are the errors in these p***ages now? Isn't 1830 closer to 2013 than it is to 1630.. But again remember no scholarly translator of the Bible claimed his translation was given through direct revelation, as Smith did for the BofM.. You are comparing apples to Jumbo jets.. There is no comparison between how the KJV of the Bible was TRANSLATED AND HOW THE BofM WAS SAID TO BE TRANSLATED.. It is not comparable at all.. IHS jim