Jacob 5:64 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and if it [so be 1ABCDEGHKPS|be so FIJLMNOQRT] that these last grafts shall grow and bring forth the natural fruit then shall ye prepare the way for them

As already discussed under 1 Nephi 22:17–18, the original text had no occurrences of the word order “if it be so”, only “if it so be”. Thus the secondary word order that the 1852 LDS edition introduced here in Jacob 5:64 will be reversed.

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

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