3 Nephi 9:5 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
that the blood of the prophets and of the saints shall not come [up up > up 1|up APS| BCDEFGHIJKLMNOQRT] any more unto me against them

Both the printer’s manuscript and the 1830 edition have the preposition up here in 3 Nephi 9:5 (although initially Oliver Cowdery accidentally wrote the up twice). The 1837 edition accidentally omitted the up. The 1908 RLDS edition restored it, but the LDS text has retained the 1837 reading. In this passage there are three other occurrences of this expression, and they have each maintained the up:

The original up will, of course, be restored in verse 5.

Summary: Restore the preposition up in 3 Nephi 9:5 since it was there in the original text as well as in the three subsequent parallel occurrences of the same basic expression in verses 7–9.

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

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