I Will Not Be a Healer Ruler

Alan C. Miner

John Tvedtnes writes that in comparing the Isaiah text from the King James Bible with the Book of Mormon, we find that the RLDS version of the Book of Mormon reads "ruler" instead of "healer" for 2 Nephi 13:7. However the word "healer" appears in the KJV, 1830 edition and our present LDS edition. The word "ruler" seems more logical, since the person speaking has been asked to be "ruler" in the preceding verse. Moreover, the person speaking repeats "ruler" later in this same verse. One must assume that the RLDS committee consulted some Biblical commentary on this, unless the original manuscript so reads (in which case, this would be greater evidence for the Book of Mormon. [John A. Tvedtnes, "The Isaiah Variants in the Book of Mormon," FARMS, p. 29]

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