1 Nephi 11:4 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and the Spirit saith unto me [believeth >% believest 0|believest 1BCDEFGH|Believest AIJKLMNOPQRST] thou that thy father saw the tree

As discussed under 1 Nephi 11:2, scribe 3 of 𝓞 accidentally used the -eth ending here rather than the correct -est, perhaps under the influence of the preceding saith. In this instance, he caught his error.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 1

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