2 Nephi 9:5 Textual Variants

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yea [& 1|and A| BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] I know that ye know that in the body he shall shew himself unto they at Jerusalem from whence we came

The phrase “yea and” is very frequent in the Book of Mormon text. There are, for instance, quite a few cases of “yea and I” followed by some form of the verb know:

Thus there is nothing unusual about the original occurrence of “yea and I know” in 2 Nephi 9:5. The dropping out of the and in the 1837 edition appears to be simply a typo and not due to Joseph Smith’s editing.

Summary: Restore the earliest reading “yea and” in 2 Nephi 9:5 (“yea and I know that ye know that in the body he shall shew himself unto they at Jerusalem”).

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

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