And when they shall say unto you, seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep and mutter; should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to hear from the dead?--II Nephi xix: 3. BIBLE. And when they shall say unto you, seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter; should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?--Isa. viii: 19. {292} Again, the English translators of the Bible, in order to make the sense of various passages more clear, inserted here and there, words of their own; which are always written in _Italics_, that the reader might know what words have been inserted by the translator, and for which he will find no equivalent in the original text. It is worthy of note that in those transcribed passages from the brass plates into the Book of Mormon, in almost every instance, the words in the Book of Mormon version are different to those substituted by the translators of the common English Version; or are left out, as follows: BOOK OF MORMON. What mean ye? Ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor.--II Nephi xiii: 15. BIBLE. What mean ye _that_ ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor?--Isa. iii: 15. The above is a case where the inserted word of the translator, which I have written in _Italics_, is omitted, and to my mind the passage as it stands in the Book of Mormon is the stronger and more beautiful. Here is a passage where different words are used than those inserted by the translators: BOOK OF MORMON. Say unto the righteous, that it is well with them; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Woe unto the wicked for they shall perish; for the reward of their hands shall be upon them.--II Nephi xiii: 10, 11. BIBLE. Say ye to the righteous, that _it shall be_ well _with him_: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Woe unto the wicked; _it shall be ill with him_; for the reward of his hands shall be given him.--Isa. iii: 10, 11. I think it will be readily conceived that the above passage as it stands in the Book of Mormon is much superior to the version given in our common Bible. And when it is remembered that Joseph Smith and those who assisted in translating that work were most likely uninformed as to the supplied words of the translators being written in _Italics_, it is an incidental evidence that those passages in the Book of Mormon to which are found corresponding passages in the Bible, were not merely copied from the Bible, but in the Book of Mormon we have really another translation of those passages taken from original records of the Hebrews, uncorrupted by the hand of man, and hence more perfect.