Mosiah 18:29 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and they did walk uprightly before God imparting to one another both temporally and spiritually [according 1ABCDFGHIJKLMNOPQRST|accordingly E] to their needs and their wants

The 1849 LDS edition accidentally replaced according with accordingly, an error that resulted from the compositor just having set the two adverbs temporally and spiritually (both end in -ly). This obvious typo was removed in the subsequent LDS edition (1852). The word accordingly occurs only once in the actual text, in Ether 6:20: “and accordingly the people were gathered together”; according, on the other hand, is always followed by either to or as.

Summary: The critical text will maintain the original according in Mosiah 18:29 and elsewhere in the text; accordingly occurs only once in the original text.

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

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