3 Nephi 29:2 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and ye may know that the words of the Lord which have been spoken by the holy prophets shall [all 1ABDEFIJLMNOPQRST| CGHK] be fulfilled

Here the word all was omitted in the 1840 edition, probably accidentally. The 1908 RLDS edition restored the word to the RLDS text; the LDS text, since it derives from the 1837 edition but not the 1840 edition, has maintained the original all. The 1840 edition has this same typo in Helaman 14:7. As explained under that passage, the typesetter’s eye seems to have skipped the all because the immediately preceding shall ends in all.

Summary: Maintain the word all in 3 Nephi 29:2: “the words of the Lord … shall all be fulfilled”.

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

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