1 Nephi 12:18–19 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
… and Jesus Christ which is the Lamb of God of whom the Holy Ghost beareth record from the beginning of the world until this time and from this time henceforth and forever [NULL > & 0|& 1|And ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] while the angel spake these words I beheld and saw that the seed of my brethren did contend against my seed

Here scribe 2 of 𝓞 accidentally omitted the and but soon supplied it, perhaps when he read the text back to Joseph Smith. The use of and as a narrative connector is very prominent in the Book of Mormon and should be maintained here. For discussion, see 1 Nephi 12:11.

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

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