3 Nephi 5:3 Textual Variants

therefore they did forsake all their sins and [their 1ABCDEFGIJLMNOPQRST| HK] abominations and their whoredoms

Here the 1874 RLDS edition omitted one of the repeated their ’s; the 1908 RLDS edition restored it. Such repetition of the determiner is characteristic of the Book of Mormon text, as in these examples of multiple conjunction:

Mosiah 11:20
- for I have seen their abominations and their wickedness and their whoredoms
Alma 37:29
- and only their wickedness and their murders and their abominations shall ye make known unto them
Alma 50:21
- yea their murderings and their plunderings and their idolatry and their whoredoms and their abominations which were among themselves which brought upon them their wars and their destructions

For a general discussion of this usage, see under conjunctive repetition in volume 3.

Summary: Maintain the repeated their ’s in 3 Nephi 5:3 (“all their sins and their abominations and their whoredoms”); such usage is characteristic of the Book of Mormon text.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 5

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