2 Nephi 20:1 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees and that write [grieveeousness 1|grievousness ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] which they have prescribed

Isaiah 10:1 (King James Bible) woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees and that write grievousness which they have prescribed

As discussed under 1 Nephi 17:25, the earliest Book of Mormon text has only the nonstandard grievious for the standard grievous, even in the Isaiah quotations (see the discussion under 2 Nephi 19:1). The critical text will maintain the nonstandard grieviousness here in 2 Nephi 20:1.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 2

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