2 Nephi 28:5 Textual Variants

The 1907 LDS vest-pocket edition accidentally deleted the repeated the before Redeemer. Such repetition of the in conjoined constructions is characteristic of the Book of Mormon text. This change has not been maintained in the LDS text because the 1907 edition was never used as the copy-text for any subsequent LDS edition.

Elsewhere the text repeats the determiner whenever Lord and Redeemer are conjoined by means of and:

• 1 Nephi 10:14
  • or come to the knowledge of the true Messiah their Lord and their Redeemer
• 2 Nephi 31:17
  • wherefore do the things which I have told you that I have seen that your Lord and your Redeemer should do

The same repetition of the determiner is found whenever Savior and Redeemer are conjoined by and. All the examples pattern after the King James “thy Savior and thy Redeemer” (the reading in Isaiah 49:26):

• 1 Nephi 21:26 and 2 Nephi 6:18 (both quote Isaiah 49:26)
  • and all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Savior and thy Redeemer
• 1 Nephi 22:12 (a paraphrase of Isaiah 49:26)
  • and they shall know that the Lord is their Savior and their Redeemer

Thus it is clear that the repetition of the definite article the should be maintained in 2 Nephi 28:5.