3 Nephi 24:11 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes and [he 1ABCDEGHIJKLMNOPQRST|ye F] shall not destroy the fruits of your ground

Malachi 3:11 (King James Bible) and I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground

The typesetter for the 1852 LDS edition accidentally misread the pronoun he as ye, probably because of the surrounding instances of your: “for your sakes … the fruits of your ground”. The correct he was restored in the subsequent LDS edition (1879).

Summary: Maintain the pronoun he in 3 Nephi 24:11 (“and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground”), the reading of the earliest Book of Mormon sources as well as the King James text.

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

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