Enos 1:1 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
behold it came to pass that I Enos knowing my father that he was [a just man 01ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRST|just a man Q] for he taught me in his language and also in the nurture and admonition of the Lord

The typesetter for the 1911 LDS edition accidentally set “he was just a man”, one of the more amusing typos in the history of the text—and obviously wrong. This error in the 1911 LDS edition was corrected in the subsequent LDS edition (1920).

Summary: Retain the original text in Enos 1:1 (“he was a just man”).

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

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