2 Nephi 24:20 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
the seed of evildoers shall never be [renouned 1|renowned ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRT|removed S]

Isaiah 14:20 the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned

Here the 1953 RLDS edition introduced a typo, replacing renowned (the King James reading) with the visually similar (but wholly inappropriate) removed. Possibly removed is the result of the repeated occurrence of the verb remove earlier in this long quotation: 2 Nephi 16:12, 2 Nephi 20:31, and 2 Nephi 23:13. To say that the Lord will never remove the seed of evildoers is clearly inappropriate.

Summary: Maintain in 2 Nephi 24:20 the original renowned, the King James reading.

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

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