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\u00a0 \u00a0 The proposal offered by some LDS scholars that the Book of Mormon\u2019s \u201chorses\u201d might have been some other animal \u2014 perhaps Baird\u2019s tapir \u2014 that the Nephites called \u201chorses\u201d because, although unfamiliar, they saw them as, in some salient way, \u201chorse-like\u201d can be counted upon to draw raucous derision from a certain species […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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