Helaman 13:28 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and because he speaketh flattering words unto you and he saith that all is well [& 1|and A| BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST] then ye will not find no fault with him

Here the 1837 edition removed another Hebraistic use of the conjunctive and: namely, in the original text an and separates a preceding subordinate clause (in this case, a because-clause) from its following main clause (“then ye will not find no fault with him”). See, for instance, the nearby discussion under Helaman 12:13–21 regarding Hebraistic if-clauses. For other instances of this Hebrew-like construction in the original text, see under hebraisms in volume 3.

Summary: Restore in Helaman 13:28 the Hebraistic and that separates the because-clause from its following main clause.

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

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