1 Nephi 19:2 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
wherefore the record of my father and the genealogy of his forefathers and the more part of all our proceedings in the wilderness are engraven upon those [first 0T| 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRS] plates of which I have spoken

While copying from 𝓞 to 𝓟, Oliver Cowdery accidentally omitted the word first. The editors for the 1981 LDS edition restored it by reference to 𝓞. The verse later refers once more to these other plates:

Summary: Maintain the first in “upon those first plates” in 1 Nephi 19:2.

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

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