1 Nephi 10:13–14 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
it must needs be that we should be led with one accord into the land of promise unto the fulfilling of the word of the Lord that we should be scattered upon all the face of the earth and after that the house of Israel should be scattered they should be gathered together again or in fine [that 0A|that >js NULL 1| BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] after the Gentiles had received the fullness of the gospel the natural branches of the olive tree or the remnants of the house of Israel should be grafted in or come to the knowledge of the true Messiah

Here Joseph Smith deleted the repeated subordinate conjunction that in his editing for the 1837 edition. The repeated that specifically refers the reader back to the earlier “unto the fulfilling of the word of the Lord”. The previous after-clause (which begins verse 14) did not have a that before it since, as already noted under 1 Nephi 10:2–3, the text tends to avoid the sequence “that after that”. For additional discussion, see that in volume 3.

Summary: Restore the deleted subordinate conjunction that following “or in fine” in 1 Nephi 10:14; the that is used to help connect the text to the earlier reference in verse 13 (“the fulfilling of the word of the Lord”).

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

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