3 Nephi 9:6 Textual Variants

and the inhabitants thereof to be buried up in the [debths 1|depths ABCEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST|depth D] of the earth

The 1841 British edition changed the plural depths to the singular depth, probably accidentally. The subsequent LDS edition (1849) restored the plural depths. Elsewhere the text has only the plural in references to the depths of the earth (including one more time in this chapter):

2 Nephi 26:5 the depths of the earth shall swallow them up
3 Nephi 9:8 and the inhabitants thereof have I buried up in the depths of the earth
3 Nephi 28:20 by his power they were delivered out of the depths of the earth

For other cases involving depth versus depths, see under 1 Nephi 8:32 and Alma 62:41.

Summary: Maintain the plural depths in 3 Nephi 9:6 (“to be buried up in the depths of the earth”).

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

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