Helaman 8:14 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
yea did he not bear [ 1ABCEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST|the D] record that the Son of God should come

The 1841 British edition accidentally added the definite article the before record, an obvious typo since the text refers only to “bearing record” (37 times, including here in Helaman 8:14), never to “bearing the record”. The subsequent LDS edition (1849) removed the intrusive the.

Summary: Maintain in Helaman 8:14 and elsewhere the consistent use of “to bear record” without any determiner for record.

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

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