3 Nephi 27:30 Textual Variants

Here the 1888 LDS edition omitted the universal quantifier all. No subsequent LDS edition was set from the 1888 edition; thus the all has been maintained in the LDS text. The phrase “holy angels” occurs one other place in the Book of Mormon text, and in that case we get the all:

• Alma 18:30 the heavens is a place where God dwells and all his holy angels

Interestingly, the biblical text has the all with “holy angels” only once (marked below with an asterisk):

• * Matthew 25:31 when the Son of Man shall come in his glory and all the holy angels with him
• Mark 8:38 when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels
• Luke 9:26 when he shall come in his own glory and in his Father’s and of the holy angels
• Revelation 14:10 in the presence of the holy angels

The critical text will follow the earliest reading in 3 Nephi 27:30, “and also all the holy angels”.