2 Nephi 23:14 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and it shall be as the chased roe and as a sheep that no man taketh up [ 1APS|and BCDEFGHIJKLMNOQRT] they shall every man turn to his own people and flee every one into his own land

Isaiah 13:14 (King James Bible) and it shall be as the chased roe and as a sheep that no man taketh up they shall every man turn to his own people and flee every one into his own land

The 1837 edition introduced the conjunction and before the clause “they shall every man turn to his own people”. This change was not marked by Joseph Smith in the printer’s manuscript; thus this addition of and may very well be a typo. There is no and in either the King James text or in the corresponding Hebrew text. In accord with the reading of the printer’s manuscript, the 1908 RLDS edition removed this intrusive and, but it has continued in the LDS text.

Summary: Restore in 2 Nephi 23:14 the original text without the and before the clause “they shall every man turn to his own people”, the reading of the King James text.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 2

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