Isaiah returns to literary contrasts to finish this section. Though the suffering servant dies among the wicked, he receives a reward with the great. Though he was numbered with the transgressors (here referring to his death, not to his personal qualities), he will be the salvation for those transgressors (indicating his great position above them). This is the ultimate resurrected and exalted Savior, who has taken his seat by God’s side.
Comparison: Here is another number difference between the KJV (“the sin of many”) and the Book of Mormon (“the sins of many”). This is another area where the underlying text is a collective and where either translation is correct.
Text: There is no chapter break at this point in the 1830 edition. While we have seen breaks between cited text and a return to narrative, this occasion does not really fit that model for Mormon’s chapter breaks. While Abinadi changes referents here, Mormon does not. Mormon is still working with copied text. The break will come when Mormon shifts to narrative from copying text (our chapter 16).