[Weeedley]

How can Joseph Smith have produced a “better” translation of the Bible since he was a a barely educated well digger who had no knowledge of the Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic that the origional scriptures were written in?

But I will grant you he did have fluency in Reformed Egyption...LOL

[MHGinTN]

He didn’t undertake his ‘better’ translation until he began taking Hebrew lessons from a teaching Jew. Then he sought to ‘rewrite the Bible from the Hebrew, adding thousands of words not in the Hebrew language on the pages he had. Mormonism claims he could add these words by the empowerment for knowledge through the seer stone(s) or magic spectacles. It is the same tactic for apologetics claimed where the Abraham text is magically fabricated from simple Egyptian funerary writing.