2 Nephi 26:7 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
for I Nephi [hath 1ABCDEGHKPS|have FIJLMNOQRT] seen it

As discussed under 2 Nephi 8:16, the inflectional ending -(e)th originally occurred even with the first person pronoun I, as here in 2 Nephi 26:7. In this instance, the 1852 LDS edition replaced hath with have, which has continued in the LDS text, but the RLDS text has maintained the original hath. The critical text will retain the nonstandard usage. For further discussion, see infl tional endings in volume 3.

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

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