Mosiah 17:13 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and it came to pass that they took him [& bound him 1|and bound him ANOPQRST| BCDEFGHIJKL|NULL > and bound him M] and …

The conjoined predicate “and bound him” was accidentally omitted during the typesetting of the 1837 edition. The typesetter’s eye skipped from the first him and down to the following him and. The missing predicate was restored to the LDS text in the 1906 large-print edition and the third printing (in 1907) of the 1905 missionary edition, undoubtedly by reference to the 1830 edition. The 1908 RLDS edition restored it to the RLDS text, probably by reference to 𝓟. The critical text will maintain, of course, the earliest reading with the conjoined predicate “and bound him”.

Summary: Maintain in Mosiah 17:13 the conjoined “and bound him”, which was accidentally omitted in the 1837 edition but restored in the early 1900s to both the LDS and RLDS texts.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 3

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