Helaman 3:16 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
until they are no more called the Nephites becoming wicked [& wild 01|and wild ABCEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST| D] and ferocious

The 1841 British edition accidentally omitted and wild. After setting wicked, the compositor’s eye skipped from wicked to the visually similar wild, with the result that he continued by setting and ferocious, thus skipping and wild. The subsequent LDS edition (1849) restored the original reading here.

Summary: Maintain the occurrence of and wild in Helaman 3:16: “becoming wicked and wild and ferocious”.

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 5

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