3 Nephi 21:9 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
for in that day for my sake shall the Father work a work which shall be a great and [a 1ABCDEGHKPRST| FIJLMNOQ] marvelous work among them

Here the 1852 LDS edition omitted the repeated indefinite article a in the phrase “a great and a marvelous work”. The 1920 LDS edition restored it to the LDS text (although normally other losses of repeated a ’s have not been restored in the LDS text). For further discussion of the repeated a in the phrase “a great and (a) marvelous work”, see under 1 Nephi 14:7. The critical text will, for each case of the repeated a, follow the earliest textual sources.

Summary: Maintain in 3 Nephi 21:9 the repeated a in “a great and a marvelous work”, the reading of the earliest textual sources.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 6

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