Helaman 5:6 Textual Variants

Here the 1874 RLDS edition switched the order of the perfective have and the subject I in the environment of the fronted direct object this (in accord with the biblical style). In the 1908 RLDS edition, the original word order (“this I have done”) was restored to the RLDS text, probably by reference to 𝓟.

Elsewhere in the text, we get three examples of the inverted order with fronted this and the perfective auxiliary have:

• 1 Nephi 13:27 and all this have they done that they might pervert the right ways of the Lord
• 1 Nephi 19:4 and now this have I done and commanded my people …
• Jacob 5:25 behold this have I planted in a good spot of ground

However, there are also three other examples with the noninverted order:

• 1 Nephi 3:16 and all this he hath done because of the commandment
• Alma 10:10 and this he hath done while this Alma hath dwelt at my house
• Alma 60:9 yea and this they have done

Either order is possible, so we follow the earliest textual sources in Helaman 5:6 and maintain the noninverted order.