1 Nephi 8:32 Textual Variants

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and many were lost from [My view > NULL 0| 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] his view

Here in 1 Nephi 8:32, scribe 3 of 𝓞 accidentally reverted to the first person (as if Nephi were directly quoting Lehi) but then immediately caught his error, crossed out “my view”, and wrote inline “his view”. Earlier, Nephi had been directly quoting his father’s words (1 Nephi 8:2–28), but beginning with verse 29, Nephi had switched to summarizing Lehi’s account (“and now I Nephi do not speak all the words of my father”). The scribal error in verse 32 suggests that the few cases in the text of mixing direct and indirect quotes within a sentence may possibly be due to scribal error (see the discussion for 1 Nephi 7:1 and Alma 19:26). On the other hand, see Alma 56:52–53 for an example of a longer intervening indirect quote that seems to be intentional.

Summary: Maintain the third person usage in 1 Nephi 8:32 (“and many were lost from his view”).

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 1

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