1 Nephi 8:1 Textual Variants

The 1837 edition accidentally added an extra and in this conjunctive phrase headed by both. This reading was followed by the first three LDS British editions (1841, 1849, and 1852) until corrected in the second printing of the 1852 edition (probably by reference to the 1840 edition, which had correctly removed the intrusive and ). Obviously, the people of Lehi took with them both grain and fruit seeds for planting.

Parallelism requires that the modifying phrase “of every kind” be attached to both “grain” and “the seeds of fruits”:

• 1 Nephi 8:1
  • both of grain of every kind and also of the seeds of fruits of every kind

Thus the intrusive and is wholly inappropriate. Such cases of parallelism occur whenever the conjunctive phrase is of the form “both … and also”:

• 1 Nephi 13:42
  • both unto the Jews and also unto the Gentiles
• Helaman 16:15
  • both of the Nephites and also of the Lamanites
• Mormon 2:8
  • both on the part of the Nephites and also on the part of the Lamanites