Jacob 5:17 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and it came to pass that the Lord of the vineyard looked and beheld the tree [in thewhich 1|in the which ABCDEFGHIJKNOPRST|in which LMQ] the wild olive branches had been grafted

As noted under 1 Nephi 3:2, the archaic in the which has sometimes been replaced in the text with in which. In this instance, the definite article the was omitted in three early 20th-century LDS editions (1902, 1905, and 1911). The 1920 LDS edition restored the the, undoubtedly by reference to the earlier text. For a general discussion, see in the which in volume 3.

Summary: Maintain the original in the which in Jacob 5:17.

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

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