1 Nephi 8:22 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and it came to pass that they did come forth and [commensed 0|commence 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] in the path which led to the tree

The original text here conjoins two finite verb forms. In his copying from 𝓞 to 𝓟, Oliver Cowdery ended up dropping the final d from commenced, thus conjoining two infinitive verb forms. The critical text will restore the earliest textual reading. For discussion, see 1 Nephi 8:11.

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

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