Mormon 8:16 Textual Variants

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and blessed be [him 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQS|he RT] that shall bring this thing to light

Here the object pronoun form him was replaced with the subject form he in the editing for the 1920 LDS edition. As discussed under 2 Nephi 1:27, the original text had quite a few cases where the subject complement took the object form. Some of these have been edited, but not all (for some of the exceptions, see under Mosiah 15:18). For a complete discussion, see under subject complement in volume 3. The critical text will maintain the object forms whenever they are supported by the earliest textual sources.

Summary: Restore in Mormon 8:16 the object pronoun form him, the reading of the earliest textual sources (thus “and blessed be him that shall bring this thing to light”).

Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon, Part. 6

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