2 Nephi 17:11 Textual Variants

Isaiah 7:11 (King James Bible) ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God ask it either in the depth or in the height above

The 1906 LDS edition accidentally set either as neither, which is clearly unexpected given the following or. The incorrect neither was probably the result of the correct occurrence of neither in the next verse. The spacing in the 1879 edition (the copy-text for the 1906 edition) is such that the either in verse 11 is separated by only white space from the neither in verse 12, thus facilitating the accidental replacement of either by neither:

• 2 Nephi 17:11–12 (1879 edition; original word spacing retained)
  • 11. fAsk thee a sign of the Lord thy God; ask it either in the depths, or in the heights above.
    12. But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord.

This obvious error in the 1906 edition was not continued in any subsequent LDS edition.