Words of Mormon 1:4 Textual Variants

yea and I also know that as many things [NULL > as 1|as ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] have been prophesied concerning us down to this day has been fulfilled

Here Oliver Cowdery’s correction in the printer’s manuscript seems to be a virtually immediate correction based on the original manuscript (no longer extant here), especially since the ink ﬂow is the same. The as also seems necessary. And as we might suspect, other passages in the text have this same kind of construction, namely “as many as”:

2 Nephi 27:14
- and in the mouth of as many witnesses as seemeth him good will he establish his word
Alma 54:3
- therefore Moroni resolved upon a stratagem to obtain as many prisoners of the Nephites from the Lamanites as it were possible
Alma 57:9
- but as many times as they attempted this their blood was spilt
Alma 61:5
- and I have ﬂed to the land of Gideon with as many men as it were possible that I could get

Summary: Retain in the Words of Mormon 1:4 Oliver Cowdery’s nearly immediate correction in 𝓟 where he inserted the second as in “as many things as have been prophesied” (undoubtedly the original reading in 𝓞, no longer extant here).

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

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