Mosiah 13:17 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
six days [shalt 1ABCDEFGIJKLMNOPQRST|shall H] thou labor

Exodus 20:9 (King James Bible) six days shalt thou labor

Here the 1874 RLDS edition accidentally replaced shalt thou with shall thou. The subsequent RLDS edition (in 1892) restored the correct reading. For further discussion of the tendency in the text to replace shalt with shall, see under Mosiah 12:11. For a similar example in this chapter, see Mosiah 13:23.

Summary: Maintain in Mosiah 13:17 the use of shalt in “six days shalt thou labor”, the reading of the earliest textual sources.

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

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