3 Nephi 8:5 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and it came to pass in the thirty and fourth year in the first month [in 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQS|on RT] the fourth day of the month

As discussed under Alma 56:1, the original in in the phrase “in the fourth day of the month” appears to be the reading of the original text here in 3 Nephi 8:5. The 1920 LDS edition changed the in to on, what we expect in modern English. The critical text will restore the original in.

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

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