Mosiah 25:20 Textual Variants

The 1830 typesetter accidentally, it would appear, switched the order of be all to all be here in Mosiah 25:20. Elsewhere in the original text, the order is always all be:

• Alma 34:13 yea it shall all be fulfilled
• Alma 40:19 whether the souls and the bodies … shall all be reunited at once
• 3 Nephi 1:25 till it should all be fulfilled
• 3 Nephi 5:8 they cannot all be written in this book
• 3 Nephi 15:6 as many as have not been fulfilled in me … shall all be fulfilled
• 3 Nephi 29:2 the words of the Lord … shall all be fulfilled
• Moroni 8:10 they shall all be saved with their little children

However, in one of these cases, the order has been switched to be all in the LDS text:

• Alma 34:13 (1879 error)
  • yea it shall [all be 1ABCDEFGHKPS|be all IJLMNOQRT] fulfilled

The three other cases of “all be fulfilled” have maintained their original word order. The word order be all is clearly possible; note that be all was introduced into the 1879 LDS edition in Alma 34:13 and has been retained in the LDS text ever since. The critical text will in each case follow the word order as found in the earliest textual sources, either all be or be all. This means that there is a unique occurrence of the order be all here in Mosiah 25:20, although the possibility remains that this unique word order could be an error.