6. _The Transcribed Passages_.--There are a few suggestions about these transcribed passages which may be valuable to the student, as they furnish an indirect evidence of the truth of the Book of Mormon. The Nephites having transcribed passages from the brass plates they carried with them from Jerusalem into their records, wherever such passages occur in the Book of Mormon, and corresponding passages are found in our English Bible, it will be seen by the reader that so far we have two translations of the writings of the old Hebrew prophets; and it will be found on comparison that the passages in the Book of Mormon are stronger and more in keeping with the sense sought to be expressed by the prophet than the corresponding passages and chapters in the Bible. As a proof of this I ask the student to compare I Nephi xx and xxi with Isaiah xlvii and xlix. In some instances there are sentences, in the Book of Mormon version of passages from Isaiah, not to be found in our English version, as witness the following: {291} BOOK OF MORMON. O house of Jacob, come ye and let us walk in the light of the Lord; _yea, come, for ye have all gone astray, every one to his wicked ways_.--II Nephi xii. BIBLE. O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.--Isa. ii: 5. In other instances it will be found that the sense of the passages is different, and that the passages in the Book of Mormon best accord with the sense of the whole: BOOK OF MORMON. Therefore, O Lord, thou hast forsaken thy people, the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and hearken unto soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.--II Nephi xii: 6. Their land is also full of idols--they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made: and the mean man boweth not down, and the great man humbleth himself not, therefore, forgive him not.--II Nephi xii: 8, 9. Thou hast multiplied the nation, and increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.--II Nephi xix: 3. BIBLE. Therefore Thou hast forsaken Thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and _are_ soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.--Isa. ii: 6 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work which their own fingers have made: and the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore, forgive them not.--Isa. ii: 8, 9. Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.--Isa. ix: 3. Observe, too, the difference in the clearness of the following passages: BOOK OF MORMON.