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Meaning of the "¶" symbol

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Liamtheknight
New Member
#1
It's basically in the title, I was reading through Exodus 22 and came across this symbol. (It's before and after 22, I just noticed it then). Does anyone have a certain idea about what it stands for? The only thing that I could think of it being related to is it either makes the beginning of a line in the earliest manuscripts of the Bible or that its the end of a certain important piece of doctrine. Could someone please help me with this?

P. S I could not find it in the Book of Mormon so I'm leaning more towards the former reasoning.
russellhltn
Community Administrator
#2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilcrow
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dansmith
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#3
Roughly, verses are sentences and these markers indicate the start of a new paragraph or "section".

I found a much more detailed answer, with some historical background, here:
https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/ ... es-version