2 Nephi 29:4 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
but thus saith the Lord God O fools they shall have a Bible and it shall proceed forth from the Jews mine ancient covenant people and what thank they the Jews for the Bible which they [receive 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOQRT|received PS] from them

The last sentence in this passage is in the present tense, which is appropriate given the preceding use of the future modal shall (“they shall have a Bible and it shall proceed forth from the Jews”). More recent RLDS editions have the past-tense form received, but this is not necessary. In fact, received may represent a typo in the 1908 RLDS edition.

Summary: Maintain in 2 Nephi 29:4 the present-tense verb form receive; such usage is consistent with the preceding text (which uses the future modal shall ).

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

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