Helaman 9:33 Textual Variants

The 1874 RLDS edition accidentally omitted the repeated shall in this conjoining of predicates. The 1908 RLDS edition restored the original shall to the RLDS text. Otherwise, the larger narrative here in Helaman 9 does not have the repeated shall in predicate conjuncts:

• Helaman 9:17 and he shall confess his fault and make known unto us the true murderer of this judge
• Helaman 9:30 and he shall stand with fear and wist not what to say
• Helaman 9:35 and then shall he confess unto you and deny no more

This lack of the repeated shall may have led to the loss of the shall in verse 33.

Elsewhere in the text, there is an occasional case of a repeated shall in predicate conjuncts, as in these cases with inverted subject-verb order:

• Mosiah 26:25 then shall they that never knew me come forth and shall stand before me
• 3 Nephi 18:30 then shall ye receive him and shall minister unto him of my flesh and blood

But there are also more examples of nonrepeated shall (and again with inverted subject-verb order):

• 1 Nephi 15:14 and then shall they know and come to the knowledge of their forefathers
• Helaman 13:32 and then shall ye weep and howl in that day
• Helaman 13:32 and then shall ye lament and say ...
• 3 Nephi 11:26 and then shall ye immerse them in the water and come forth again out of the water
• 3 Nephi 24:18 then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked

Thus variation seems to be normal in this case, and we therefore let the earliest textual sources determine whether the shall should be repeated in conjoined predicates.