1 Nephi 16:38 Textual Variants

The 1892 RLDS edition accidentally dropped the repeated a here in 1 Nephi 16:38. This error has not continued in subsequent RLDS editions. Like the case of the repeated a before a conjoined adjective, the determiner (usually the indefinite article a) can be repeated when the two nouns king and ruler are conjoined. In one other case, there has been textual variation (see Jacob 1:9 in the following list), but the current LDS and RLDS texts now read correctly (and systematically) for all instances of conjoined king and ruler:

• Jacob 1:9
  • wherefore he anointed a man to be [a 1ABCDEFGHIJKNOPRST| LMQ] king and [a 1ABDEFIJLMNOPQRST| CGHK] ruler over his people
• Mosiah 1:10
  • that thou art a king and a ruler over this people
• Mosiah 2:11
  • that I should be a ruler and a king over this people
• Mosiah 2:30
  • that my son Mosiah is a king and a ruler over you
• Mosiah 6:3
  • and had consecrated his son Mosiah to be a ruler and a king over his people
• Mosiah 23:39
  • and the king of the Lamanites had granted unto Amulon that he should be a king and a ruler over his people
• Mosiah 29:2
  • we are desirous that Aaron thy son should be our king and our ruler

For further discussion, see conjunctive repetition in volume 3.