2 Nephi 7:3 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and I make sackcloth their [covering 01ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRT|coverings S]

Isaiah 50:3 (King James Bible)
and I make sackcloth their covering

The 1953 RLDS edition added the plural s to the word covering; the original manuscript reads in the singular, as does the corresponding King James text. This example may very well be an accident since sackcloth is a singular (noncount) mass noun and readers would expect the associated covering to also be in the singular. Nonetheless, in a number of places, the 1953 RLDS edition introduced a plural noun in place of the singular (some of these changes are intentional):

For each of these examples, all other textual sources read in the singular. For discussion, see each individual passage.

Summary: Maintain the singular covering in 2 Nephi 7:3, the reading of the printer’s manuscript and the King James Bible.

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

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