2 Nephi 7:3 Textual Variants

Isaiah 50:3 (King James Bible)
and I make sackcloth their covering

The 1953 RLDS edition added the plural s to the word covering; the original manuscript reads in the singular, as does the corresponding King James text. This example may very well be an accident since sackcloth is a singular (noncount) mass noun and readers would expect the associated covering to also be in the singular. Nonetheless, in a number of places, the 1953 RLDS edition introduced a plural noun in place of the singular (some of these changes are intentional):

• 2 Nephi 15:12 but they regard not the works of the Lord
• 2 Nephi 16:11 until the cities be wasted without inhabitants
• 2 Nephi 20:3 and what will ye do in the days of visitation
• Mosiah 7:25 for if this people had not fallen into transgressions
• Mosiah 11:27 that shall bring upon my people such great afflictions
• Mosiah 15:29 thy watchmen shall lift up their voices
• Nephi 20:16 as a lion among the beasts of the forests
• 3 Nephi 20:32 then shall their watchmen lift up their voices
• 3 Nephi 23:4 and according to the times and the will of the Father
• Mormon 9:31 condemn me not because of mine imperfections

For each of these examples, all other textual sources read in the singular. For discussion, see each individual passage.