2 Nephi 22:1 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and thou [comfortedst 1ABCDEGHKPS|comfortedest FIJLMNOQRT] me

Isaiah 12:1 (King James Bible) and thou comfortedst me

For the past-tense comforted, the original Book of Mormon text used the reduced inflectional ending -st, the same one as in the corresponding King James passage. The 1852 LDS edition inserted an e to produce the fuller inflectional ending -est. For modal verb forms like would(e)st and should(e)st, the original Book of Mormon text has preferred the reduced form -st over the fuller -est. For discussion of the inflectional ending -(e)st for these two modal verbs, see under 1 Nephi 20:5.

Summary: In 2 Nephi 22:1 maintain comfortedst (the original reading in the Book of Mormon), which agrees with the King James reading.

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

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