Jacob 4:3 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and we labor diligently to [engraven 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNPRST|engrave OQ] these words upon plates

As discussed under 1 Nephi 19:1, the archaic verb engraven should be maintained whenever it is supported by the earliest textual sources. Here in Jacob 4:3, the 1907 LDS vest-pocket edition and the 1911 LDS edition took on the more modern form of the verb, engrave, but the current standard editions have maintained the original engraven.

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

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