Mosiah 1:9 Textual Variants

The 1892 RLDS edition accidentally omitted the word very here in Mosiah 1:9. The subsequent RLDS edition (1908) restored it. Several references to soon going out of this life occur elsewhere in the text:

• Jacob 7:27 I must soon go down to my grave
• Enos 1:26 I must soon go down to my grave
• Enos 1:27 and I soon go to the place of my rest
• Ether 6:19 he must soon go down to the grave
• Moroni 10:34 I soon go to rest in the paradise of God

In none of these does the adverb very appear with soon, which could explain why the 1892 edition accidentally lost the very in Mosiah 1:9 (especially since the first three of them are found close-by, in the last part of the small plates of Nephi).

There is, of course, nothing wrong with very soon occurring in the text, as it does in two other passages:

• Alma 5:50 and also the King of heaven shall very soon shine forth
• Alma 45:13 behold the time very soon cometh that …