1 Nephi 13:41 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
wherefore they [both 1BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST| A] shall be established in one

The 1830 edition accidentally dropped both here, but it was restored in the 1837 edition, undoubtedly by reference to the printer’s manuscript. Although 𝓞 was fully extant when Joseph Smith did his editing for the 1837 edition, there is no evidence that he ever referred to 𝓞 at that time. Currently, the original manuscript is not extant for this part of the text (for about three manuscript pages in 1 Nephi 13–15), including this part of the text.

Summary: Maintain both in “they both shall be established in one” since this is how the printer’s manuscript reads (here the earliest textual source).

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

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