2 Nephi 5:4 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
now I do not write upon these plates all the [words 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRT|word S] which they murmured against me

The 1953 RLDS edition accidentally replaced the plural words with word. This reading in the singular is obviously quite unexpected, especially since elsewhere the text has only “all the words” (18 times), never “all the word”. For a similar typo in the 1953 RLDS edition, see 2 Nephi 6:1.

Summary: Maintain the plural “all the words” in 2 Nephi 5:4.

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

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