1 Nephi 12:7 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and I also saw and [bare 0|bear 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] record that the Holy Ghost fell upon twelve others

The parallel language from John 1:34 argues that the correct tense for the verb bear should be the past-tense bare. For discussion, see 1 Nephi 11:32.

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

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