Mosiah 26:39 Textual Variants

Here scribe 2 of 𝓟 initially omitted the and between these two infinitival clauses, but soon thereafter he inserted inline an ampersand (the level of ink flow is unchanged). His corrected reading most probably represents the original text here. It is theoretically possible for and to be lacking between infinitival phrases, yet the Book of Mormon text almost always prefers a connecting and, as in the following example where the conjoined infinitive phrases are found within a present participial clause (as here in Mosiah 26:39):

• 4 Nephi 1:12
  • but they did walk after the commandments which they had received from their Lord and their God continuing in fasting and prayer and in meeting together oft both to pray and to hear the word of the Lord