2 Nephi 31:13 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
yea by following your Lord and Savior down into the water according to his word behold then shall ye receive the Holy Ghost NULL 1* yea then cometh the baptism of fire 1cABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST and of the Holy Ghost and then can ye speak with the tongue of angels

When copying from 𝓞 into 𝓟, Oliver Cowdery initially omitted a whole clause in this verse. His eye must have skipped down from the first Holy Ghost to the second one. He seems to have caught his error almost immediately; the long supralinear insertion was written without any change in the level of ink flow.

Summary: Maintain in 2 Nephi 31:13 the longer, corrected reading in 𝓟.

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

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