2 Nephi 8:12 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
behold who art thou that thou [shouldst 1AGHKLMPQRST|shouldest BCDEFIJNO] be afraid of man

Isaiah 51:12 (King James Bible) who art thou that thou shouldest be afraid of a man

As discussed under 1 Nephi 20:5, we will let the earliest textual sources determine whether the inflectional ending for the modal verbs would and should is -est or -st. Here in 2 Nephi 8:12, the earliest textual source (the printer’s manuscript) reads shouldst rather than shouldest (the corresponding King James form of the modal verb).

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

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