1 Nephi 15:24 Textual Variants

and I said unto them that it was the word of God and [that 0| 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] whoso would hearken unto the word of God and would hold fast unto it they would never perish

This sentence contains two conjoined subordinate clauses, both introduced by the subordinate conjunction that. In his copying from 𝓞 into 𝓟, Oliver Cowdery accidentally omitted the repeated that. The second that makes it clear that Nephi also spoke the second clause. Such examples of conjoined that-clauses are found throughout the text, as in this similar example:

Mosiah 7:27
- he said that man was created after the image of God and that God should come down among the children of men and take upon him ﬂesh and blood and go forth upon the face of the earth

For further discussion of the deletion of that, see under that in volume 3.

Summary: Restore the original repeated that in 1 Nephi 15:24 (“and that whoso would hearken”); such conjunctive repetitions are very common in the text.

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

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