1 Nephi 2:10 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and he also spake unto Lemuel [saying 0| 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST]
O that thou mightest be like unto this valley

Oliver Cowdery accidentally dropped the word saying when copying from 𝓞 into 𝓟. Elsewhere in the text, virtually every occurrence of “X spake unto Y” is followed by saying before a direct quote. A complete discussion is found at 1 Nephi 7:1.

Summary: Restore saying in 1 Nephi 2:10 since it occurs in the original manuscript.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 1

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