and inasmuch as ye shall keep my commandments ye shall prosper and shall be led to a land of promise yea even a land which I have prepared for you [ 0|yea 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] a land
which is choice above all other lands
When copying from 𝓞 into 𝓟, Oliver Cowdery added a second yea in this verse. The second phrase acts as an appositive to the first phrase; thus the yea is not necessary, even
though it is possible.
Other examples of such appositive use of “a land” show that sometimes yea occurs, sometimes not:
- 2 Nephi 1:5 (no use of yea for either occurrence)
- we have obtained a land of promise
a land which is choice above all other lands
a land which the Lord God hath covenanted with me
should be a land for the inheritance of my seed
- Mosiah 21:26 (use of yea for both occurrences)
- they did find a land which had been peopled
yea a land which was covered with dry bones
yea a land which had been peopled and which had been destroyed
- Mosiah 23:4 (use of yea only for the first occurrence)
- and they came to a land
yea even a very beautiful and pleasant land
a land of pure water
- Helaman 16:20 (no use of yea; only one appositive use of “a land”)
- to cause us that we should believe in some great and marvelous thing
which should come to pass
- but not among us but in a land which is far distant
a land which we know not
