1 Nephi 11:9 Textual Variants

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I behold thou hast shewn unto me the tree which is [most 0| 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] precious above all

Here we have another example where Oliver Cowdery omitted a word in his copying from 𝓞 to 𝓟. In this instance, he accidentally deleted the most that was right before precious. Elsewhere in the text, there are five other occurrences of “most precious” used predicatively in a relative clause, so there is obviously nothing wrong with its use here in 1 Nephi 11:9. In fact, two of these (like 1 Nephi 11:9) involve fruit:

For discussion of “most precious” in conjoined phrases, especially those involving the adjective plain, see 1 Nephi 13:28.

Summary: Restore the example of “most precious” in 1 Nephi 11:9; Oliver Cowdery accidentally dropped most when he copied from 𝓞 into 𝓟.

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

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