Helaman 1:32 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and the Lamanites did yield themselves [up 0| 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] into the hands of the Nephites

Here 𝓞 is extant and reads “did yield themselves up into the hands of the Nephites”. When he copied the text from 𝓞 into 𝓟, Oliver Cowdery accidentally omitted the up. As explained under 1 Nephi 19:10, the text strongly supports the phraseology “to yield up”. In fact, the loss of the up here in Helaman 1:32 provides evidence in support of emending 1 Nephi 19:10 to read “the God of Abraham … yieldeth himself up … into the hands of wicked men”. The critical text will restore the original up here in Helaman 1:32.

Summary: Restore the adverb up in Helaman 1:32 (“and the Lamanites did yield themselves up into the hands of the Nephites”), the reading of the original manuscript.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 5

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