Jacob 5:19 Textual Variants

The 1874 RLDS edition omitted the preposition of here in Jacob 5:19, but the 1908 RLDS edition restored it to the RLDS text. The of adds a partitive sense to the meaning. Here in Jacob 5 (the olive tree allegory), the direct object for the phrasal verb “lay up” does not usually take the partitive of:

• Jacob 5:13 that I may lay up fruit thereof
• Jacob 5:18 I shall lay up much fruit
• Jacob 5:18 the fruit thereof I shall lay up
• Jacob 5:20 take of the fruit thereof and lay it up
• Jacob 5:23 gather it and lay it up
• Jacob 5:27 that thou canst lay it up
• Jacob 5:29 I must lay up fruit
• Jacob 5:31 I have laid up unto myself against the season much fruit
• Jacob 5:46 these I had hope to preserve to have laid up fruit thereof
• Jacob 5:71 the fruit which I shall lay up

Note, in particular, that for the last example listed above (in verse 71), Oliver Cowdery initially wrote “ye shall have joy in the fruit of which I shall lay up” but then almost immediately corrected the text by crossing out the of. Even so, the partitive of is found elsewhere in the olive tree allegory:

• Jacob 5:76 for a long time will I lay up of the fruit of my vineyard
• Jacob 5:76 I will lay up unto mine own self of the fruit

Thus the occurrence of of is possible, and it should be maintained in verse 19 and twice in verse 76 (but not in verse 71).