1 Nephi 13:38 Textual Variants

and it came to pass that I beheld the remnant of the seed of my brethren and also the book of the Lamb of God which had proceeded forth from the mouth of the Jew [& I beheld >js NULL 1|and I beheld A| BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] that it came forth from the Gentiles unto the remnant of the seed of my brethren

Here is another case of Joseph Smith’s stylistic editing for the 1837 edition. In this instance, he removed the repetitiveness of “and I beheld”, although elsewhere such repetition involving beheld has been retained:

Nephi 8:11
- and it came to pass that I did go forth and partook of the fruit thereof and beheld that it was most sweet above all that I ever had before tasted yea and I beheld that the fruit thereof was white to exceed all the whiteness that I had ever seen

One could remove the repetitive “yea and I beheld” here as well, but of course such stylistic editing is unnecessary. Similarly, the original text in 1 Nephi 13:38 reads perfectly well.

Summary: Restore the original use of the repetitive “and I beheld” in 1 Nephi 13:38; this is one more example of Joseph Smith’s stylistic editing in the first part of the text.

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

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