1 Nephi 4:35 Textual Variants

The inclination here has been to introduce the reading “my father”. When copying from 𝓞 to 𝓟, Oliver Cowdery initially wrote “my father” but immediately corrected it to “our father”. For the 1837 edition, the typesetter apparently made the same mistake. The original manuscript is extant here and reads “our father”. Both the 1908 RLDS edition and the 1981 LDS edition restored the original reading.

The source for this error comes from the earlier verse where Nephi’s words to Zoram are directly quoted:

• 1 Nephi 4:34
  • therefore if thou wilt go down into the wilderness to my father thou shalt have place with us