Mormon 8:26 Textual Variants

Here we have another instance of a multiple negative in the original text (“and no one need not say …”). In his editing for the 1837 edition, Joseph Smith removed the not. There are no other examples of this particular kind of multiple negative (“no one … not”) in the text. But more generally, multiple negatives are fairly common in the original text. See under 2 Nephi 26:32 for other examples that originally had both not and no within the same clause; for a more general discussion, see under negation in volume 3.