3 Nephi 5:3 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
therefore they did forsake all their sins and [their 1ABCDEFGIJLMNOPQRST| HK] abominations and their whoredoms

Here the 1874 RLDS edition omitted one of the repeated their ’s; the 1908 RLDS edition restored it. Such repetition of the determiner is characteristic of the Book of Mormon text, as in these examples of multiple conjunction:

For a general discussion of this usage, see under conjunctive repetition in volume 3.

Summary: Maintain the repeated their ’s in 3 Nephi 5:3 (“all their sins and their abominations and their whoredoms”); such usage is characteristic of the Book of Mormon text.

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

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