2 Nephi 16:2 Textual Variants

Isaiah 6:2 (King James Bible) above it stood the seraphims

For verse 2 the 1905 LDS edition added an and—capitalized, of course, since it begins the verse. This change is a conscious one since it involves capitalizing the and and changing the initial A of Above to lowercase. The abruptness of starting a sentence with a prepositional phrase (“above it”) may have played a role, but another factor may have been the fact that the two following verses, each typeset as a separate paragraph (numbered and indented), began with a capitalized And:

• 2 Nephi 16:2–4 (1905 accidentals; original word spacing retained)
  • And above it stood the seraphims; each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
    And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of Hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory.
    And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

The 1911 LDS edition was set from the 1905 edition and continued this intrusive and in verse 2, but the 1920 LDS edition dropped it since neither the earliest editions nor the King James Bible had it.