<P> In 2015 this remaining portion was published by the Church Historian's Press in its Joseph Smith Papers series, in Volume Three of "Revelations and Translations"; and, in 2017, the LDS Church bought the printer's manuscript for US $35,000,000 . </P> <P> The original 1830 publication did not have verse markers, although the individual books were divided into relatively long chapters . Just as the Bible's present chapter and verse notation system is a later addition of Bible publishers to books that were originally solid blocks of undivided text, the chapter and verse markers within the books of the Book of Mormon are conventions, not part of the original text . </P> <P> Publishers from different factions of the Latter Day Saint movement have published different chapter and verse notation systems . The two most significant are the LDS system, introduced in 1879, and the RLDS system, which is based on the original 1830 chapter divisions . </P> <P> The RLDS 1908 edition, RLDS 1966 edition, the Church of Christ (Temple Lot) edition, and Restored Covenant editions use the RLDS system while most other current editions use the LDS system . </P>

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