2 Nephi 25:29 Textual Variants

wherefore ye must bow down before him and worship him with all your might mind and strength and your whole [soul 1ABCDEGHIJKLMNOPQRST|strength > soul F]

Here the typesetter for the 1852 LDS edition accidentally set the noun strength instead of soul in the phrase “and your whole soul”, undoubtedly because of the immediately preceding occurrence of strength. For the second printing of the edition, the appropriate soul was restored (by correcting the stereotyped plates).

Elsewhere the text has no examples of “whole strength”, but there are six examples of “whole soul(s)”, which read as follows in the earliest text:

Enos 1:9 I did pour out my whole soul unto God for them
Omni 1:26 and offer your whole souls
The Words of Mormon 1:18 and the faculty of his whole soul
Mosiah 2:20 which your whole souls hath power to possess
Mosiah 2:21 with all your whole soul
Mosiah 26:14 after he had poured out his whole soul to God

Summary: Maintain in 2 Nephi 25:29 the original reading “with all your might mind and strength and your whole soul”.

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

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