Helaman 14:3 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
insomuch that [in 1ABCDEFGIJLMNOPQRST| HK] the night before he cometh there shall be no darkness

Here in Helaman 14:3, the 1874 RLDS edition omitted the preposition in, thus changing the adverbial prepositional phrase “in the night before he cometh” to the adverbial noun phrase “the night before he cometh”. Although this secondary reading will work, there are no examples of readings like that elsewhere in the text. The 1908 RLDS edition restored the correct reading. The critical text will maintain the original in, the reading of both 𝓟 and the 1830 edition.

Summary: Maintain in Helaman 14:3 the original preposition in in the adverbial prepositional phrase “in the night before he cometh”.

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

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