Mulek / Muloch Variants

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Variant Spellings of MULEK

Muloch

Mosiah 25:2
P: Muloch
1830-1858: Mulok
1879-1888, 1902-1907, 1911-1920, 1981: Mulek

Mulok

Mosiah 25:2
P: Muloch
1830-1858: Mulok
1879-1888, 1902-1907, 1911-1920, 1981: Mulek

Muleh

Helaman 6:10b
P: Muleh > Mulek
1830-1981: Mulek

Discussion: Spelled Muloch in P; and Mulok from the 1830 edition until Orson Pratt's revision in the 1879 edition to Mulek. The scribes often changed ch to k in the text, but never k to ch.

Summary: Skousen thinks the personage should be Muloch; he makes no such statement concerning the city.

Source: ATV 3:1464-70.