2 Nephi 1:32 Textual Variants

the Lord hath [covenanted > consecrated 1|consecrated ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] this land for the security of thy seed with the seed of my son

Here we see Oliver Cowdery’s tendency to replace consecrate with covenant. In this instance, he caught his error, but an earlier error in this chapter has persisted in the text:

2 Nephi 1:5
- yea the Lord hath [concecrated 0|covenanted 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] this land unto me and to my children forever

As discussed under 2 Nephi 1:5, lands are consecrated, not covenanted.

Summary: Maintain the corrected reading in 𝓟 for 2 Nephi 1:32 (“the Lord hath consecrated this land”).

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

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