Omni 1:25 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
wherefore I shall deliver up these plates unto him exhorting all men to come unto God the Holy One of Israel and believe in prophesying and [in 1ABCDEFGHIJLMNOPQRST| K] revelations and in the ministering of angels and in the gift of speaking with tongues and in the gift of interpreting languages [& 1| A|and BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] in all things which is good

In this passage there have been two cases of loss in parallelism: the preposition in (in the 1888 RLDS edition) and the conjunction and (in the 1830 edition). The current LDS and RLDS editions maintain in this verse the original sequence of five occurrences of and in. The text has several other examples of this repetition of and in, including the following nearby instances in the last part of the small plates of Nephi:

Summary: Maintain the repetitive use of and in in Omni 1:25.

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

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