Original sentence: "  Nevertheless, in 2 Nephi 27:13, the Three are told that "none other...shall view it, save it be a few according to the will of God.Nevertheless, none of the Eight Witnesses was ever known to have denied thier testimony of the Book of Mormon or the Gold Plates.The Eight Witnesses were all members or related to the Whitmer or Smith families: Christian Whitmer, Jacob Whitmer, Peter Whitmer, Jr.The Eight Witnesses were the second of two groups of "special witnesses" to the Book of Mormon's Gold Plates of which the first were the Three Witnesses.The testimony of the Eight Witnesses was first published at the end of the 1830 edition of the Book of Mormon and has been printed in nearly every edition since, although most subsequent editions have moved the statement to the front of the book, made minor grammatical corrections, and altered the phrase "Author and Proprietor" to read "translator.Unlike the Three Witnesses, the Eight testified that they had both handled the plates as well as seen them
Edited sentence: "  Nevertheless, in 2 Nephi 27: 13—presumably translated later from the Book of Mormon—the Three are told that "none other...shall view it, save it be a few according to the will of God.Nevertheless, none of the Eight Witnesses apparently denied his testimony to the Book of Mormon or the Golden Plates.The Eight Witnesses were all members of the Whitmer or Smith families: Christian Whitmer, Jacob Whitmer, Peter Whitmer, Jr.The Eight Witnesses were the second of two sets of "special witnesses" to the Book of Mormon's Golden Plates of which the first were the Three Witnesses.The testimony of the Eight Witnesses, probably written by Joseph Smith, was first published at the end of the 1830 edition of the Book of Mormon and has been printed in nearly every edition since, although most subsequent editions have moved the statement to the front of the book, made minor grammatical corrections, and altered the phrase "Author and Proprietor" to read "translator.Unlike the Three Witnesses, the Eight testified that they had handled the plates as well as seen them