3 Nephi 11:16 Textual Variants

Royal Skousen
and it came to pass that when [they had all 1ABCEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST|all had D] gone forth and had witnessed for themselves they did cry out with one accord saying …

Here the compositor for the 1841 British edition accidentally set “when all had gone forth” instead of the semantically equivalent (and correct) reading “when they had all gone forth”. The 1849 LDS edition restored the correct reading.

Summary: Maintain the original reading in 3 Nephi 11:16: “when they had all gone forth”.

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

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