Helaman 9:8 Textual Variants

Here the 1908 RLDS edition restored the original which in this passage. The 1837 edition made the change from which to who, but Joseph Smith did not mark it in 𝓟. There are six other cases in the text where multitude(s) is postmodified by a relative clause headed by which, and in those cases not only was the which changed to who in the editing for the 1837 edition but Joseph also marked the change in 𝓟. Not surprisingly, the 1908 RLDS edition did not restore the original which in those six cases since the change to who was marked in 𝓟, as in the example found in the next chapter of the book of Helaman:

• Helaman 10:12
  • he did stop and did not go unto his own house but did return unto the multitudes [which >js who 1|which A|who BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] were scattered about upon the face of the land

Here in Helaman 9:8 we see a precise reliance in the 1908 RLDS edition on whether 𝓟 itself was explicitly edited. The critical text will, of course, restore all the original instances of which, providing they are supported by the earliest textual sources. For further discussion of the editing of which when it refers to persons, see under which in volume 3.